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Teacher Effectiveness and Distribution  // Browsing posts in Teacher Effectiveness and Distribution

Common Planning: A Linchpin Practice in Transforming Secondary Schools

Common Planning: A Linchpin Practice in Transforming Secondary Schools

A central lesson from secondary school reform efforts to date is that structural reforms such as small learning communities (SLCs), interdisciplinary teams, and even flexible scheduling do not automatically or instantly transform secondary schools into high performing learning organizations. Realizing the potential of these reforms requires that they be activated by groups of adults with […]

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Internal Teacher Turnover in Urban Middle School Reform

Internal Teacher Turnover in Urban Middle School Reform

This case study of a science reform program in the middle grades highlights how the instructional payoff from investments in intensive professional development in science was diminished by 1) teachers leaving the school and 2) assignment of teachers to subjects other than those for which they had received the professional development. The literature on teacher […]

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