This is a chapter from a book called Connecting Teachers, Students, and Standards. The chapter offers multiple methods to maintain similar learning gains in diverse student populations. It starts with an explanation of a Universal Design for Learning and models many different techniques, including but not limited to auditory, visual, cultural, and technological methods.
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Establishing Time for Professional Learning
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Killion, J. (2013) Establishing Time for Professional Learning. Learning Forward.
Time is a valuable resource that is needed for professional learning. This how-to report provides research, tools, and strategies on how to embed time for professional learning within the school day.
Teacher Leader Model Standards
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Teacher Leadership Exploratory Consortium. (N.D.) Teacher Leader Model Standards.
Leadership by teachers is essential to meeting the needs of students and supporting education professionals. The Teacher Leadership Exploratory Consortium developed these standards to promote and support teachers leadership as a vehicle to transform schools for the 21st century.
Transforming Schools through Expanded Learning Time
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This case study highlights the changes made to turnaround a low performing elementary school in a high poverty area. The 3 main changes: extended learning time for students, additional planning time for teachers, and professional development that focused on collaboration.
Time for Teachers
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This report/case study explores six specific practices that highly effective schools utilize. Practices explored in this report include: collaborative planning, embedded professional development, summer trainings, data analysis, coaching, and peer observation.
Professional Learning Communities: An Ongoing Exploration
The paper examines professional learning communities, the components that comprise them, current literature references, and connections to school improvement planning. There is also a section on steps schools can take to prepare for developing effective professional learning communities.
What is a “Professional Learning Community”?
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DuFour, R. (2004). What is a “Professional Learning Community”?, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
The article outlines main components of effective professional learning communities. DuFour includes a careful discuss of each component and then provides examples of that component in application.
Models for Effective and Scalable Teacher Professional Development
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Drawing on learning theory, expertise research, and research on effective professional development, this paper presents the theoretical and empirical basis behind an evolving program of professional development that employs school-embedded teacher learning communities as a central component, called Keeping Learning on Track®.
Professional Community & Professional Development
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This brief provides a research-based blueprint for teacher learning, including the goals it can serve, strategic content priorities, and effective approaches or strategies. In “learning centered” schools—where there is an emphasis on both student and teacher learning—teacher professional communities are the hub of a learning system that focuses on instructional improvement. These communities are strategically linked with various other modes of professional development within and outside the school.
New Thinking on Staff Development
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Viadero, D. (2007). New Thinking on Staff Development. Education Week.
This article compares the effectiveness of several types of professional development and provides examples of highly effective models including the National Writing Project and Cognitively Guided Instruction.