Resources

You’ve been tasked with selecting a tool to manage your curriculum. Where do you start? Doing an online search, asking your peers at other schools, and looking back at emails and materials you’ve received from vendors and industry professionals are all common activities.

Enter most schools today, and you will hear discussions about one of the most significant losses for students during the pandemic -- their opportunity to think interdependently -- to socialize their learning as they develop their intelligence. Research suggests, to make this happen requires a combination of beliefs, dispositions, and skills that are embedded in the curriculum: 

As a building administrator or school leader, a significant aspect of your job is looking at data. State testing results, standardized testing data, and benchmarking results all provide a way to investigate how your school or district is performing. As you comb through the reports looking for trends in student performance, you may end up having as many questions as you do answers. 

It has been over 40 years since educator Rick DuFour and Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois put professional learning communities (PLCs) on the map. Recognized as a model of successful school reform, professional learning communities have gone on to become a commonplace term in education jargon.