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Professional Learning

Learning to Teach by Listening to Students

In this excerpt from the recently released book, Sparks Into Fire, author Young Whan Choi relates a story of how one student's question shaped his growth as a teacher.
Professional Learning

For Teacher Professional Growth, Study the Soil

Professional learning needs to meet teachers where they are. To do that well, facilitators need to know the teachers and their context.
Professional Learning

Teachers Need to Experience Powerful Learning Too

This excerpt from the recently released book, Sparks Into Fire, is a story of teacher PD that underscores why improving schools will require powerful changes to teacher learning.
Building Community

The Pedagogy of Pizza Parties

A more expansive pedagogy embodies the best of teaching content while also attending to the culture that supports caring, respectful relationships.
Building Community

Less Scaling Up, More Rooting Down: Lessons for Education from a Japanese Mochi Maker

If we want to see lasting, meaningful change in our schools, we don't need scale. We need to root down to build relationships and community.
New Designs for School

The Equity Imperative: Project-Based Distance Learning

Find out how PBL went virtual at Oakland High School: when the world shut down, students' authentic project on safe transportation continued, to great success!
Building Community

How I Was Raised as a Teacher

New and aspiring teachers—and their students—would be better served with extensive coaching and mentoring by experienced, competent, expert teachers.
Reimagining Assessment

How to Address Racial Bias in Standardized Testing

COVID-19 has disrupted springtime testing; now is the time to ask why we use standardized tests, considering the racial bias in them.
Professional Learning

Student Voice in Teacher Professional Learning

​Teachers can study their content area, child development, and pedagogy, but students are the best "source" to really know if instruction is engaging.
Professional Learning

Three Ways to Build Trust and Strengthen Teacher PD

Learn 3 ways professional development facilitators can strengthen teacher PD by leading with trust to improve experiences for all.