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Tailored for a Perfect Fit: Flexible Templates Promote Standards Alignment and Teacher Collaboration
Jacobson, Linda – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
Susana Velasco always thought she designed lessons for her kindergarten students to help them meet the academic standards for their grade. But now she feels better equipped to adapt instruction to meet the needs of all the children in her class--a skill she has developed through her school's participation in the Literacy Design Collaborative…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Models, Alignment (Education), Academic Standards
Donsky, Debbie; Witherow, Kathy – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
This article addresses the challenge of personalizing learning while also ensuring alignment with system and school improvement plans. Leaders of the York Region District School Board in Ontario knew that what took their high-performing school district from good to great would not take it from great to excellent. The district's early model of…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), School Districts, Individualized Instruction, Educational Improvement
Bergman, Barbara – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Teachers in the Federal Way (Wash.) Public Schools had no shortage of student data. Standardized test scores, unit tests, and report card grades were as familiar to educators as reading, writing, and arithmetic. With the onset of statewide testing in the 1990s, data analysis was expanded to cover a multitude of state learning goals in grades 4, 7,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Utilization
Hill, Rachelle; Rapp, Lori – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Schools and districts are inundated with data from a variety of sources. As a result, using data to guide instructional planning can be daunting for teachers and schools. While schools and districts are dealing with shrinking budgets and growing demands for high student achievement, an investment in school-based coaching can provide exponential…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Data Analysis, Coaching (Performance)
Suescun, Marisa; Romer, Toby; MacDonald, Elisa – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
The idea of teacher leadership holds an immense and intuitive appeal. Most educators agree that teacher leaders are essential to fostering a climate of authentic and robust leadership and learning across a school. Teacher leadership is peer leading at its most authentic, demanding, and empowering. While the value of teacher leadership may be…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Teacher Leadership
Mistretta, Regina M. – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Teacher education and professional development prepare teachers with up-to-date knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for effective teaching. To sustain this, however, hinges on continued professional learning within schools. Research shows that establishing long-term conditions that allow teachers to learn continuously from one another…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Communities of Practice
Dillon, Paula; Erkens, Cassandra; Sanna, Diane; Savastano, Linda F. – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Eight school districts in Rhode Island formed the East Bay Professional Learning Community to launch a joint effort to develop a culture of assessment literacy through ongoing professional learning focused on team-specific action plans tightly aligned to school, district, and state initiatives. To accomplish this, the districts pooled their…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Shared Resources and Services, Best Practices, Student Evaluation
Armstrong, Anthony – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
In a private room at the back of a busy restaurant just outside of Tampa, Florida, drinks and appetizers went unnoticed as 12 diners sat around one large table and engaged in multiple rapid-fire conversations about professional learning. On one side of each conversation were representatives of Memphis (Tennessee) City Schools. The district was in…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Mentors, Teacher Role

Loucks-Horsley, Susan; Cox, Patricia L. – Journal of Staff Development, 1984
A basic weakness of many national educational reports is that they focus on what is wrong with the education system and overlook how the schools can be improved. Research-based guidelines to be used in change efforts are offered. (DF)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement