Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. If you are on the lookout for an educator community, or you happen to be an administrator trying to find out ...

Professional learning in many districts must undergo radical reform, from a model that’s outdated and ineffective to one that’s personal, empowering, and owned by the learner.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

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

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2017), pp. 1-33 (33 pages) Abstract This article discusses the current international emphasis on educational ...

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 ...

As two former school superintendents, we’ve witnessed firsthand how learning communities can enrich the personal and professional lives of classroom teachers. In school systems nationwide, we have ...

While Ranch Creek Elementary students soak in the freedom that twice-monthly two-hour late starts allow, their teachers are hard at work inside the classroom. They are bouncing ideas off of one ...

(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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When teachers collaborate, students win. That’s the theory behind becoming a Professional ...

Over the next five years, we must address critical elements imperative to building teacher capacity. Let’s create a Rubric for Educators to Accelerate Discovery (READ). Reimagining Teacher Training as ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh. On ...