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Teachers Learning: Engagement, Identity, and Agency in Powerful Professional Development
(2016-10-13)
Professional development (PD) is seen by a broad cross-section of stakeholders — teachers, principals, policymakers — as essential for instructional improvement and student learning. And yet, despite deep investments of ...
Focusing on People: How Coherent Development Practices Can Improve Teacher Retention at DSST Public Schools
(2016-05-03)
In the current education reform climate, retaining high-quality teachers is a critical aspect of maintaining successful school systems. Charter schools in particular tend to employ a human capital model that recruits young ...
Recruiting and Hiring Teachers in Six Successful, High-Poverty, Urban Schools
(2015-05-15)
Good teaching matters, especially for students growing up in poverty. But, effective teaching does not alone depend on the contributions of talented and skilled individuals. Rather, promising pedagogues are far more ...
Teachers’ Views of School-Based Professional Learning in Six High-Performing, High-Poverty, Urban Schools
(2015-05-15)
Policy makers, practitioners and scholars agree that teachers need sustained job-embedded professional learning experiences to help students meet the demands of new accountability systems, higher education, and the workforce ...
When Teachers Speak of Teaching, What Do They Say? a Portrait of Teaching From the Voices of the StoryCorps National Teachers Initiative
(2015-05-15)
There is a significant lack of educational research in which teachers’ talk about teaching is not mediated by researchers. In the public sphere, teachers’ voices rarely reach us unfiltered by the media, union and school ...
Learning to Teach to the Common Core State Standards: Examining the Role of Teachers’ Collaboration, Principals’ Leadership, and Professional Development
(2015-02-18)
Recent research on the relationship between standards and teachers’ practice suggests that teachers are unlikely to make changes to practice without extensive opportunities for learning about standards with colleagues. My ...
Teachers Learning: Engagement, Identity, and Agency in Powerful Professional Development
(2016-10-13)
Professional development (PD) is seen by a broad cross-section of stakeholders — teachers, principals, policymakers — as essential for instructional improvement and student learning. And yet, despite deep investments of ...
Challenges of Integration, Obligation and Identity: Exploring the Experiences of Teachers Working to Educate Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon
(2018-10-15)
The on-going war in Syria is a humanitarian crisis. Since conflict began in 2011, more than 1.2 million Syrians have crossed into Lebanon. Almost half of these refugees are school-aged children. Education is an essential ...