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Professional Learning Communities: A Kaleidoscope of Opportunities
A kaleidoscope contains mirrors and colored glass, pebbles, or beads whose reflections create complex patterns of frequently changing colors and shapes when rotated. The vibrant and intricate images, generated by...
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Kathleen McCaffrey
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Passion is not enough: Preparing middle level preservice teachers to be advocates for change
Each year, thousands of middle grades preservice teachers assume their places in classrooms across the country, through practica, internships, and student teaching experiences. Over 600 U.S. colleges or universities...
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Jessica DeMink-Carthew, Penny A. Bishop
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Partnering for Success
The excitement in the room is palpable. Teams of middle grades students are engaged in a fingerprinting lab to gather evidence for identifying the likely culprit in a forensics project, "Who Kidnapped Thunder?",...
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Sandy Webb
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Through the years, I've developed some successful strategies I'd like to share with my colleagues outside my school. Suggestions? What can I do?
Peer-to-peer sharing is one of our most meaningful and effective kinds of professional development—and it's so easy to do. Whether it's presenting at a meeting or conference, writing an article, or participating...
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Patricia George
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EdCamp: Do It Yourself Professional Development
The unconference is targeted, personalized professional development at its best.
It's three o'clock in the afternoon on a contractually required professional development meeting day and teachers are beginning to shuffle into a session offered by their school district. The presenter is passionate...
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Brian Cook
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"Sometimes we are so focused on our teams and PLCs that we don't establish relationships with other teachers around the school. Any ideas for promoting schoolwide relationships and collaboration?"
Cultivating, building, and sustaining relationships is not guaranteed in all learning environments; however, just as we help students develop cooperative and communication skills, we can adopt and hone collaborative...
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Sandy Cameli
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Join the Crowd: Building a PLN
The phrase "Teachers work in isolation," has long been used to describe the working conditions of educational professionals, including most middle level teachers. Educators have found ways to solve this problem by...
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Christopher S. Weiler
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Courageous Conversations for Cowards
Stop avoiding uncomfortable conversations. Put out an SOS.
This is the information generation. Information about everyone and everything is at our fingertips. New social media sites are created almost daily. Although it seems like we communicate all the time, more often than...
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Deborah R. Higdon, Carrie L. Reed
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A Middle Years Love Story
Why is it that on the news every day, they start by saying "good evening" and then proceed to tell us exactly why it isn't? Some of the most powerful statements and questions I've ever heard—like the one...
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Summer Howarth
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Your Class and School Improvement: Plotting it Out
As we begin to draw the curtain on another school year, many of us take time to rest, to reflect, and to read—books we didn’t have time to check out all year, novels that we heard about but couldn’t...
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Dru Tomlin
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