Statewide Use of Professional Learning Communities
This report examines how states are using school-wide, large-scale professional learning communities in their school improvement work.
EdTech Leaders Online: A case study of scalable online professional development programs
Clayton Christensen Institute. This case study looks at the impact of West Virginia’s e-Learning for Educators program implementation and sustainability model.
Online Communities of Practice: What Works
Four leaders of successful community of practice (COP) education initiatives participated in a panel at FETC and shared their knowledge about and experience with best practices for online communities of education practitioners. This article is an excerpt of the discussion.
U.S. Department of Education’s Connect and Inspire: Online Communities of Practice in Education
This report is targeted to education leaders and stakeholders who are interested in exploring, starting, or strengthening online communities of practice for educators.
Differentiated Literacy Coaching
Chapter 1 provides an overview of the rationale for technology coaching, principles for coaching and ideas for planning and evaluating a coaching model.
Effective Coaching by Design
This article provides an overview of the value of coaching and the essential steps for successful coaching.
LearnPort
LearnPort serves all members of Michigan’s educational community, including faculty, administrators and staff in schools, affiliated professional organizations, and college and university education students and their teacher education faculty, as well as guests and collaborating users by providing high-quality online professional development, collaboration spaces and other resources for the education community.
Intel’s Teacher Engage Community (sponsored resource)
This online community provides ongoing support for teachers as they implement new teaching practices by connecting educators who implement technology into their classrooms and promoting student-centered approaches. It offers 21st century classroom resources, online courses, and active dialogue within a global network.
Indiana’s Online Communities of Practice
Organized around teachers’ content areas, these groups were created to boost collaboration and peer-to-peer sharing of online resources aligned to Indiana’s Academic Standards.
Texas Teacher School Technology and Readiness “STaR” Chart
This is a tool that aligns the progress that individuals (e.g. teacher, campus) make toward meeting state and district technology goals with the four key areas of the state’s Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006 – 2020.