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Professional Development
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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PD Cyber Café
A challenge teachers face every school year is how to balance their want for professional growth without losing instruction time in the classroom. Often, teachers are left deciding whether to attend professional...
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James Brown
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Is Your PLC Ready to Succeed?
Assess your PLC's effectiveness against these five key areas.
The focus on state and national standards, high-stakes testing, and student growth has prompted schools to apply the old adage that two heads are better than one. School administrators and a few teacher leaders...
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Bobb Darnell
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Contributing by Writing
Writing for education publications is a thrill. It’s synergistic, too. Writing about teaching makes us better teachers, and teaching students makes us better writers. And though we may not realize it at first,...
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Rick Wormeli
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Rick Wormeli
Spread the Word ... Share the Learning!
The sessions... The speakers... The tweets... The conversations... The strategies... The ideas... The attendees! All of these ingredients (and more) made for a thrilling and informative recipe in Nashville at...
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Dru Tomlin
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Professional Learning and Professional Development in the Middle Grades
Research Summary
Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers have touted the importance of improving educator quality as fundamental to enhancing school and student outcomes (Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, & Orphanos,...
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Dana L. Bickmore
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Building Teacher Collaboration School-wide
Models for teacher collaboration are ineffective without true participation.
Teacher collaboration has been a common element of middle grades initiatives for years, typically one or more of these three organizational models: common planning time, professional learning communities, and critical...
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Micki M. Caskey, Jan Carpenter
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Growth Buddies: Priceless Professional Development
Having a colleague who serves as a sounding board and a support system is a valuable part of professional development.
It all started when… Michele: "It all started because my last hour French students were driving me crazy. Becky was teaching in an eighth grade English classroom kitty-corner from mine, and I wandered in. I...
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Rebecca Kordatzky, Michele Lapean-Usher
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