A 40-hour workweek is a dream for most teachers nationwide. To clock in at 8:00 A.M. and clock out at 5:00 P.M. and leave your worries and cares behind is a luxury no teacher can afford. Teachers spend an average of 52 hours working during a typical work week. Even...
What if someone walked into your office and handed you a magic wand for professional learning—one that would ensure that all of your teachers receive regular, high-quality professional learning that results in improved teaching and learning across your system? While a...
Rivet recently interviewed district leaders about planning professional development to support the implementation of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM). In the 30 interviews we conducted, not one district leader used an external partner to support the...
Daily, educators carry the weight of always having to have the answers. We are responsible for raising the next generation of doctors, lawyers, professors, and craftsmen and are expected to know exactly how to do it. The reality is that education, like all other...
Two years ago, we set out to solve an important problem in K–12 Education: a growing number of high-quality professional learning providers had emerged, each well-suited to the challenges of supporting districts with curriculum selection, implementation, and/or...
The national meeting of superintendents is happening this weekend, and we wish to hire a skywriter to post this above the entrance: “We know how to help you spend your ESSER funds to increase student achievement!” Tips on how to spend ESSER funds effectively seem to...
If you have spent time on Twitter in the past year, you will certainly have seen the bombardment of “reading wars” posts dominating your feed. EdReports’ recent reviews of Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study and Fountas & Pinnell Classroom and Emily Hanford’s new...
In recent weeks, social media buzz saw lots of conversation about outcomes from LETRS training. Some seemed surprised to learn that an IES study found that LETRS training improved teacher knowledge but did not improve student outcomes. “Food for thought,” tweeted Tim...
In their recent blog post “Seven conditions for effective professional learning,” Instruction Partners writes: “When we talk about professional learning, we typically talk about different kinds of professional learning that educators engage in (e.g., PLCs, coaching)...
The Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University recently released Curriculum-Based Professional Learning: The State of the Field, a report describing the current state of curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL). As part of the study,...
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