This study explores mindfulness-based teaching and learning (MBTL) as an emerging field of transprofessional practice spanning educational, organisational, and clinical professions. Recognising the need for a more robust set of transprofessional MBTL teacher competencies to serve this emerging specialisation, the authors developed and validated…

Faculty development for interprofessional (IP) teaching and learning is a complex and evolving part of educators' preparation for IP teaching and learning. A review of the literature highlighted a gap of rigorous research in the area of faculty development for interprofessional education (IPE). This pilot study used a mixed-methods approach to…

In the last decade, social media have become important tools for educator professional development, learning and community. While education has traditionally proven to be an isolating profession, technologies such as Twitter offer opportunities for educators to collaborate beyond their school, district, region and nation. Education-related Twitter…

In this paper we consider the pedagogic and cultural role of practitioner research (PR) in teacher learning, using a case study approach set in a secondary academy school in the West Midlands of England. We acknowledge teacher learning and its influence on pupils as complex and relational, and that this should encourage more research, not deter or…

This two-year study examines an emergent model for promoting classroom change amidst systemic professional development efforts--the hybrid teacher leader (HTL). Utilizing ecological and teacher social network frameworks, the relative strengths and weaknesses of educators who both teach and lead teachers are explored. In-depth qualitative data from…