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Features professional development resources to improve the teaching of reading and writing by giving insights to practical instructional strategies and more.

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Spring 2012 Issue

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Getting Creative About Literacy Instruction

The Spring 2012 issue of the Teacher PD Sourcebook highlights instructional efforts that, against difficult odds, are showing signs of success in bringing reading and writing to life for today's students.


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Learning Forward
Keep Great Ideas Going -- And Growing
Implementation is essential to linking professional learning to changed practices and transformed results. (05/14 02:58 pm)
Coach G’s Teaching Tips
Graduating or Dropping Out: What's the Difference?
The dropout rate at Chicago's Manley High School was over 60% when I taught there, and even higher for males. Yet Rodney Wilson (not his real name) made it to graduation, and ... (05/11 03:09 pm)
Leading From the Classroom
Teacher Leadership Recap
A blog that's entitled "Leading from the Classroom" should have blog posts about teacher leadership. So, as the application window for the Teacher Leadership Online Community ... (05/16 08:15 pm)

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Is There Enough Focus on Teacher Collaboration?

In the Fall issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, a scholar argues that the level of teacher collaboration in a school—what she refers to as a school's 'social capital'—can be a powerful factor in boosting student achievement, perhaps even more powerful than individual teachers' abilities. How strong is teacher collaboration in your school? How well does current education and school-level policy support trust and substantive interaction among teachers? What could be done to improve schools' social capital?

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