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Resources - Michael Palmisano - May 18 2012 - 2:09pm - 2 comment(s)
This excerpt from Michael Palmisano's Taking Inquiry to Scale: An Alternative to Education Reform (in development) discusses the differences between collaborative inquiry and traditional forms of professional development.
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Perspective - Tom McCann - Sep 28 2012 - 10:58am - 2 comment(s)
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Vignette - Ball Foundation, Cotsen, George Herrera - Feb 16 2012 - 5:54pm - 2 comment(s)
George Herrera of Rowland Unified School District, Rowland, California describes some of the challenges, activities, and outcomes of a family literacy community of practice that included both teachers and parents.
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Perspective - Millie Davis - May 9 2013 - 2:52pm - 1 comment(s)
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Perspective - Anne DiPardo - May 2 2013 - 12:00pm - 1 comment(s)
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Case - Matt Cole, Rex Babiera, Susie Burch - May 15 2012 - 5:41pm - 1 comment(s)
This case features a community of practice at Rowland High School, Rowland Heights, California, that studied academic vocabulary during the 2010-2011 school year. Formal support for communities of practice began in the 2009-2010 school year. In 2010-2011, approximately 120 educators (13% of...
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Vignette - Carmen Jimenez, Cotsen - May 26 2012 - 4:46pm - 1 comment(s)
A mathematics learning team finds positive growth through the sharing of research based journal articles.
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Vignette - Cotsen, Lila Daruty - May 26 2012 - 4:46pm - 1 comment(s)
This vignette highlights the challenges associated with moving from an effective inquiry group focused on student engagement to a schoolwide focus.
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Vignette - Bob Hill - Jun 14 2012 - 2:19pm - 1 comment(s)
When a visitor steps across the threshold of the front door of Lincoln Magnet Middle School in Springfield, Illinois, it doesn't take long to discover that students are at the center of all that takes place there. Student ambassadors greet you, exuding pride in their school and a...
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Resources - NCLE Staff - Apr 27 2012 - 5:13pm - 2 comment(s)
Literacy is the ability to use available symbol systems that are fundamental to learning and teaching – for the purposes of comprehending and composing—for the purposes of making and communicating meaning and knowledge. —...
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Perspective - KaiLonnie Dunsmore - Jun 6 2012 - 8:58am - 5 comment(s)
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Resources - Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey - Nov 6 2012 - 12:55pm - 1 comment(s)
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey talk about text complexity, an important element of the Common Core State Standards, and about the implications for educators.
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Resources - NCLE - Mar 19 2013 - 4:38pm
Making Room for What WorksToday there is growing agreement that literacy is at the center of all learning. The National Center for Literacy Education, a coalition of...
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Perspective - Catherine Nelson - May 15 2013 - 5:03pm
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Resources - Mary Beth Schaefer - May 17 2013 - 4:10pm
The author of this Voices from the Middle (Sept 2011) article is a seventh-grade English language arts teacher who engaged in teacher research in order to become a more understanding, responsive, and confident instructor.
Systematic inquiry into her own practice revealed a conflict...
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Resources - NCLE - May 28 2012 - 3:34pm
This framework provides an overview of the types of organizational conditions and practices that enable schools to build and sustain a collaborative culture that is grounded in evidence of student learning. Focusing on the collective capacity within a team, a school, a district, or...
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Perspective - Lara Hebert - Apr 25 2013 - 3:06pm
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Resources - George Herrera, KaiLonnie Dunsmore, Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis - May 13 2013 - 2:57pm
In this article from Language Arts (May 2013), the authors look at how a community of practice in one midsize urban K–12 school district engaged in a community-mapping process to discover, gather, and analyze a rich array of community and home resources in order to create...
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Resources - NCTE - May 10 2013 - 12:34pm
This NCTE policy research brief outlines some of the key features, benefits, and challenges faced by communities of practice, as well as some of the ways that institutions can support school-based communities of practice. NCTE Policy Research Briefs are available at...
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Resources - Barbara Moss - May 10 2013 - 12:20pm
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This article from Voices from the Middle (May 2013) provides an overview of the Common Core text exemplars and gives examples of ways teachers can group text exemplars and other trade books in ways that will support middle graders’ understanding of complex texts. -
Resources - Dianna Townsend, Lisa Larson, Temoca Dixon - May 10 2013 - 11:26am
The purpose for this action research study was to answer the question: How can we enhance students' active engagement with academic vocabulary in social studies classes?
In this article from Voices from the Middle (May 2013), the authors share the strategies they...
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Vignette - Amy Valens, Mission Hill School, Tom Valens - Mar 1 2013 - 1:46pm
On January 31, 2013, Sam Chaltain wrote in an Education Week blog titled... -
Perspective - Carla Aranda - Oct 1 2012 - 5:14pm - 4 comment(s)
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Resources - Arthur W. Hunsicker, Bonnie S. Sunstein, Deidra F. Baker, Rossina Zamora Liu - May 8 2013 - 5:49pm
This article from English Journal describes how two math teachers, two English teachers, and 86 students bridged cultural divides between mathematics and English in urban Massachusetts and rural Iowa.
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Perspective - Kent Williamson - Mar 28 2013 - 4:38pm - 1 comment(s)
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Resources - Brian Osborne, Gail Davis, Scott Thompson, Victoria Kniewel - Sep 28 2012 - 2:18pm
Having its basis in the field of medicine, the Instructional Rounds approach provides a means of gathering evidence related to a pre-defined problem or challenge that a collaborative team is interested in addressing....
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Perspective - Katie Wood Ray - May 22 2012 - 4:50pm
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Perspective - Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey - May 25 2012 - 4:08am
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Resources - Corey Drake, Lori Norton-Meier, Mary Tidwell - Apr 30 2013 - 2:44pm
Elementary school classrooms and preservice teachers rarely perceive math as a form of communication or as a foundation for community. Instead, it often takes the shape of numbered problems with very specific answers compiled into textbooks and worksheets. In an effort to make connections...
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Resources - Susan I. McMahon - Apr 30 2013 - 2:41pm
The author of this Voices from the Middle article, Susan I. McMahon, adopts the stance that, even though strategy use should be taught to help learners monitor their comprehension, such instruction is not sufficient to ensure transfer or ownership. Further, such instruction often...