Every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so every student achieves.
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- NSDC 2009 Annual Conference
St. Louis
Saturday, December 5 at 9:00am - NSDC 2009 Summer Conference
Boston
Sunday, July 19 at 9:00am
In the coming weeks, Congress will consider two important pieces of legislation that could have a major impact on professional learning in this country. You can help get this legislation passed.
A look at two different approaches to coaching and the results they get from teachers.
When does 3,500 X 6 = 25 million?
National Staff Development Council (NSDC)
Thanks to Anthony Rebora, Nancy Flanagan, and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach for live-blogging the conference for Ed Week's Web Watch blog. Check out their conference posts at http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/webwatc
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A recent study of 3,001 children by the National Literacy Trust in the United Kingdom finds that children who engage with technology have stronger core literacy skills than their technologically unsound peers, according to BBC News.
The expertise to raise student and school performance already resides in most schools. The way to make it spread hinges on how we change the culture of most schools and provide support to school and teacher leaders to make it happen.
What's often missing in the work of professional learning teams is actual professional learning.
Teacher networks promote teachers' participation in important policy discussions and decisions that most directly affect student achievement.
Part of leadership is recognizing that we, in a very real sense, create the emotions around us.
As part of my work on the Advisory Team for PBS's Peer Connection, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on questions coaches typcially ask.
There is no road to school improvement that does not require effective professional learning.
Author and national PLT consultant Anne Jolly facilitates "Professional Learning Teams," NSDC's latest e-learning program, starting November 2.
Author Michael Fullan sees many reasons for optimism in today's schools, with "scores of practitioners" using strategies that lead to improvement..
A broad-brush approach to professional learning incorrectly assumes that all teachers have the same needs, readiness to learn, knowledge, skills, experience levels, and talents. Until teachers take control of their own learning, that will continue.
Educators are the most logical advocates of early release days for effective professional learning. Unfortunately, many of them have never experienced it.
