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  • Sharing Studio Space
    Perspective - Anne DiPardo - Nov 1 2012 - 12:19pm - 2 comment(s)
  • Unwilling to Postpone
    Perspective - Anne DiPardo - Dec 5 2012 - 12:59pm - 2 comment(s)
  • Collaborative Inquiry Differs from Traditional Professional Development

    This excerpt from Michael Palmisano's Taking Inquiry to Scale:  An Alternative to Traditional Approaches to Education Reform (NCLE & NCTE, 2013) discusses the differences...

    Resources - Michael Palmisano - May 18 2012 - 2:09pm - 2 comment(s)
  • The Spirit of Our Profession
    Perspective - Anne DiPardo - May 2 2013 - 12:00pm - 1 comment(s)
  • Speaking Up
    Perspective - Millie Davis - May 9 2013 - 2:52pm - 1 comment(s)
  • From Adversaries to Partners
    Perspective - Tom McCann - Sep 28 2012 - 10:58am - 2 comment(s)
  • A Family Literacy Community of Practice

    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.

    Vignette - Ball Foundation, Cotsen, George Herrera - Feb 16 2012 - 5:54pm - 2 comment(s)
  • Inquiry and Independence in the English Language Arts Classroom

    Tonya Perry brings us vignettes from the classrooms of six middle-level educators who are integrating the Common Core State Standards in a variety of teaching environments, in this excerpt from Chapter 2 of Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 6-8...

    Resources - Tonya Perry - Mar 19 2013 - 12:23pm
  • An Emerging Alternative
    Perspective - Michael Palmisano - Jun 7 2013 - 10:52am
  • Adaptive Action Templates

    Pursuing collaborative inquiry as adaptive action takes communities of practice through cycles of observing (identifying patterns in student learning and performance as well as patterns of practice and organizational conditions), planning, acting, and reflecting, which returns inquirers to the...

    Resources - Michael Palmisano, NCLE - Apr 8 2013 - 2:50pm
  • Questions That Matter Primer

    This primer describes the practice of asking important questions as a key driver for new knowledge, understanding, and change. The primer describes the what, why, and how of developing questions that matter, particularly questions geared toward professional learning conversations and the...

    Resources - Joann Ricci, Myron Rogers - Jun 11 2013 - 2:35pm
  • A Year at Mission Hill

    "A Different Story About Public Education,"

    On January 31, 2013, Sam Chaltain wrote in an Education Week blog titled...

    Vignette - Amy Valens, Mission Hill School, Tom Valens - Mar 1 2013 - 1:46pm
  • Storytelling Primer

    This primer presents “storytelling” as a means of sharing knowledge and influencing change processes. It provides an explanation of this traditional practice as a illustration of how/why it is relevant to professional learning processes, and it contains reflective questions that a...

    Resources - Joann Ricci, Myron Rogers - Jun 11 2013 - 2:43pm
  • Dispelling the Myth of Summer "Vacation"
    Perspective - Lara Hebert - May 31 2013 - 7:38am
  • Why Is Deprivatizing Practice a Core Concept of NCLE?
    Perspective - KaiLonnie Dunsmore - Jul 26 2012 - 12:26pm
  • All Teachers Are Not Teachers of Reading, but...

    All teachers are not teachers of reading, but all teachers use language as part of the learning process.  This Web seminar session focuses on the role that language plays in learning and...

    Resources - Doug Fisher - Jun 5 2012 - 3:18pm
  • On Writing in Science

    In this article, Sandra K. Abell reflects, "Why use writing in science? Many teachers use writing in science as a recording tool (science notebooks) or to find out what students have learned (constructed response tests). Yet writing experts Judith Langer and Arthur Applebee (1987) tell us...

    Resources - Sandra Abell - Nov 28 2011 - 2:18pm
  • Disciplinary Literacy: Why It Matters and What We Should Do About It

    Elizabeth Birr Moje, coming from a background as a history and science teacher, discusses disciplinary literacy. This hour-long keynote presentation, rich with strategies that can be applied in the K-12 classroom, took place during the March 2010 National Reading Initiative Conference in New...

    Resources - Elizabeth Birr Moje - Sep 26 2012 - 1:10pm
  • Education Reform: How Traditional and Capacity-Building Approaches Differ
    Perspective - Michael Palmisano - Nov 14 2012 - 11:17am
  • Welcome to the Literacy in Learning Exchange
    Perspective - KaiLonnie Dunsmore - Jun 6 2012 - 8:58am - 5 comment(s)
  • Why Do We Have To Do Math in Science Class?

    Using a project-based learning approach, this team of high school teachers from different disciplines collaborated to identify an area in which their students needed work, then developed a cross-curricular project to address it.

    Vignette - Lori Griffith, NCLE Staff, NCTAF - Dec 4 2012 - 12:56pm
  • Reflections about the Meaning of Literacy

    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.  —...

    Resources - NCLE Staff - Apr 27 2012 - 5:13pm - 2 comment(s)
  • Bringing Academic Vocabulary into Everyday Practice

    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...

    Case - Matt Cole, Rex Babiera, Susie Burch - May 15 2012 - 5:41pm - 1 comment(s)
  • Research as a Turning Point

    A mathematics learning team finds positive growth through the sharing of research based journal articles.

    Vignette - Carmen Jimenez, Cotsen - May 26 2012 - 4:46pm - 1 comment(s)
  • Moving from an Inquiry Group to a Schoolwide Focus

    This vignette highlights the challenges associated with moving from an effective inquiry group focused on student engagement to a schoolwide focus.

    Vignette - Cotsen, Lila Daruty - May 26 2012 - 4:46pm - 1 comment(s)
  • Making Learning Relevant—Bringing the World into the Classroom

    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...

    Vignette - Bob Hill - Jun 14 2012 - 2:19pm - 1 comment(s)
  • The Power of Professional Trust
    Perspective - Catherine Nelson - May 15 2013 - 5:03pm
  • Text Complexity and the Common Core State Standards

    Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey talk about text complexity, an important element of the Common Core State Standards, and about the implications for educators.

    Resources - Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey - Nov 6 2012 - 12:55pm - 1 comment(s)
  • What’s the Purpose? Students Talk about Writing in Science

    In this Language Arts (July 2005) article, educator Cathy Tower makes the point that if we understand the ideas that students bring (and/or the ideas that they glean during instruction) about purpose, audience, the use of visuals, and other genre and discourse-related concerns, then...

    Resources - Cathy Tower - Aug 24 2012 - 12:03pm
  • Remembering Critical Lessons in Early Literacy Research: A Transactional Perspective

    This article from Language Arts (March 2005) summarizes research and critical lessons from a transactional perspective on how young children develop literacy, arguing that "children need to value and be valued for who they are and where they come from; they need to control their...

    Resources - Gretchen Owocki, Kathryn F. Whitmore, Prisca Martens, Yetta Goodman - Aug 17 2012 - 12:43pm