It seemed like the minute hand on the clock was stuck. “When will this PD end so I can get back to lesson planning and grading student work?” I thought to myself in silent desperation. Then, I ...

This article is part of the collection: From Pre-Fab to Personalized: How Districts Are Retooling Professional Development. Last week, we shared the first part of a two part series on Personalized ...

Late last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation published a widely noted study intended to explore what teachers want when it comes to professional development. But particularly on the important ...

Shirley Hord, Learning Forward’s scholar laureate, has focused her career on research about and practice of effective professional learning communities. Here she answers an educator’s question about ...

In order for teachers to turn out students who are college and career ready, we must give them the tools and support that will allow them to learn, improve, and do their jobs better even as we hold ...

The mission of the 5-year Strategic Implementation Plan on Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy (the Plan) is to ensure that Concordia students, as direct beneficiaries of its ...