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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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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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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... -
Vignette - Kent Williamson - May 24 2012 - 2:18pm
The Eastern Michigan Writing Project Teacher Research Group includes teachers from across the grade levels, elementary through college, who have voluntarily come...
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Vignette - Rachel Kliegman - May 29 2012 - 4:26pm
On December 12, 2008, a diverse group of thirteen superintendents from urban, suburban, and rural school districts in New Jersey came together for the first time to lay the foundation for a community of practice that continues to thrive today—The New Jersey Network of Superintendents (...
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Vignette - NCLE Staff - Jun 18 2012 - 11:02am
Motivated by a shared inquiry question, a team of librarians at Deerfield High School (Illinois) gathered data to support a push to integrate information literacy skills into the curriculum, and developed a fruitful collaboration with other departments resulting in a co-taught Medieval...
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Vignette - Lori Griffith, NCLE Staff, NCTAF - Dec 4 2012 - 12:56pm
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.
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Vignette - Lorna Collier - Apr 9 2013 - 12:45pm
Educators and administrators at this Champaign, Illinois, high school have found that collaborating to review student work has been an effective way to leverage teacher expertise and address areas that need improvement.
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Vignette - Phil Johnson - Apr 9 2013 - 5:14pm
Educator Angie Muse, a learning coach in the Hazelwood School District, Missouri, describes some of the experiences she and her colleagues shared as part of a district-assigned “data team.”
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Vignette - Rex Babiera - Mar 20 2013 - 3:59pm
At Hilltop Drive Elementary School in Chula Vista, California, educators and students are creating a culture of “we,” where everyone ensures that learning happens.
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Vignette - Lorna Collier - Mar 20 2013 - 3:31pm
By working together across subject areas and finding new ways to adjust instruction to student needs, educators at Westlane Middle School in Indianapolis are making a difference in student learning.
Westlane Middle School is nationally recognized as a...
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Vignette - Rex Babiera - Mar 27 2013 - 4:03pm
Sarah Brown Wessling and her colleagues at Johnston High School, Iowa, saw that some changes were needed in the curriculum to achieve real student engagement, and working together, they found a way to make it happen....
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Vignette - Andrew Lachman - Jul 10 2012 - 9:39am
Andrew Lachman, Executive Director for the Connecticut Center for School Change, describes how a group of Connecticut school superintendents formed a community of practice and began using instructional observation as a means to identify areas of concern and support continuous improvement....