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Download full textLotan, Rachel A.; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The teaching profession requires continuous learning, and in 2014, a new model of professional learning was introduced in California by the Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC), a group of expert teachers who organize local professional development to spark iterative changes in practice. In the four years following its launch, the ILC connected…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Common Core State Standards
Talbert, Joan E.; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Clovis Unified School District (USD) serves about 43,000 students in a city just northeast of Fresno. The district is diverse, serving sizeable groups of Latino/a and Hmong students, and 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The district's proportion of English learners is below the state average, but students are…
Descriptors: School Districts, Human Capital, Common Core State Standards, Educational Change
Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Scott, Caitlin – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
This brief summarizes lessons from "positive outlier" districts in California that have excelled at helping African American, Latino/a, and White students achieve at high levels on new assessments of academic standards in English language arts and mathematics, after accounting for students' socioeconomic status. Drawing on case studies…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Scott, Caitlin – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
U.S. education has experienced many waves of reform in responding to rapid changes in knowledge, technologies, and the economy. It is now widely accepted that, to succeed in the future, all young people must have the opportunity to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication competencies--often referred to as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Achievement Gap, Common Core State Standards
Lotan, Rachel A.; Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC) is a California collaborative teacher professional learning project in which expert teachers organize local professional development to spark iterative changes in practice. Launched in 2014, ILC is a joint effort of the California Teachers Association (CTA), the National Board Resource Center (NBRC), and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Change
Lotan, Rachel A.; Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The Instructional Leadership Corps (ILC) is an innovative professional learning project in which teacher leaders in California collaborate to lead sustainable professional development to support implementation of new student standards within their districts. Over more than 4 years, the ILC has served over 100,000 teachers. The responses of these…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Change
Burns, Dion; Shields, Patrick M. – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Gridley Unified School District serves just over 2,000 students across five schools in a small rural town in the upper Sacramento Valley. The median annual household income in Gridley is just over 60% of the state average. Gridley Unified is one of seven districts studied by researchers at the Learning Policy Institute in a mixed-methods study…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
