If professional learning communities offer opportunities for improving the teaching and learning process, then developing strong professional development school (PDS) partnerships establish an ...

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Professional learning in many districts must undergo radical reform, from a model that’s outdated and ineffective to one that’s personal, empowering, and owned by the learner. How can we create such a ...

Post by Julianne Turner, Ph.D. Dr. Turner has worked with teachers in several professional development projects to support increased student engagement through teacher instruction. She is Professor ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2009), pp. 149-171 (23 pages) This study is a survey and interpretation of professional development literature related ...

While educators within the Medina City School district continue to promote the Portrait of a Bee initiative to better prepare ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is a professional learning community and how can educators build one? Teaching can be an isolated profession—we’re in our rooms all day with students. Students ...

(This is final post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What is a professional learning community and how can ...

Ghana’s quest for inclusive and high-quality education has received a major boost as the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Model, introduced in 2018, has shown measurable improvements in teaching ...

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