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Making Professional Learning Teams Work

A recent six-year study , published in The Elementary School Journal , tracked 15 Title 1 schools serving 14,000 mostly low-achieving, limited-English proficient students. The study found that inquiry-based learning teams, in which members focused on student achievement, produced the best academic results, with one caveat: Participants in peer-managed-learning teams, as opposed to those with a top-down structure, are more likely to take ownership of a causal link between instruction and learning,...