MANISTEE — Manistee Area Public Schools was recognized by the education consultant Solution Tree for its success in implementing a professional learning communities framework and seeing improvements ...

While Ranch Creek Elementary students soak in the freedom that twice-monthly two-hour late starts allow, their teachers are hard at work inside the classroom. They are bouncing ideas off of one ...

Those were the words out of Dr. Richard DuFour’s mouth more than a decade ago as I was excitedly and passionately explaining how my district was going about our work. DuFour and Dr. Robert Eaker are ...

Bloomington, Ind., April 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), in partnership with Solution Tree, a national professional development ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

We’ve all been in meetings where leaders are asked to collaborate, yet the room doesn’t feel collaborative at all. Andy Hargreaves once called this contrived collaboration, which occurs when ...

CHARLESTON -- Marion County Schools knew it had a problem when 40 percent of high school freshmen in 2005 failed math. In 2006, five of the county's high school master teachers began working together ...

A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...

It’s lauded by some as one of the best ways to improve teaching and learning, scorned by others as a complete waste of time. It’s something that teachers might have access to weekly, or barely get ...