Team Leaders in a Professional Learning Community

July 22, 2009

By Robert Eaker and Janel Keating

Collaborative teams are the engines that drive professional learning communities. It is simply impossible to ensure high levels of learning for all students if teachers are working in isolation. The quality of work performed by teams depends on team leaders who join with their principal to direct the team’s work ensuring that the team is focusing on the right things and continually improving, laboring together to improve student learning. Continue Reading

Three Rules Help Manage Assessment Data

July 7, 2009

By Thomas W. Many, Ed.D.

The following article was published in the March/April issue of TEPSA News. It has been reproduced on this site with permission from TEPSA News and PLC Associate, Thomas W. Many.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

We live in the Information Age, when never before has so much data on student learning been so readily available. It is the best of times… Continue Reading