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O'Keeffe, James – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
In praise of isolation: Who says professional learning communities (PLCs) are a better way? The author says the PLC trend is but the latest education fad that is not helping teachers or students. PLCs, says the author, represents an administrative, clinical ideal of collaboration. He blames legions of high-paid consultants, and says that all along…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Faculty Development, Educational Innovation, Reputation
Patterson, Gregory A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Blended learning holds the potential of improving the way we educate students and of making them more motivated. Blended education--the melding of information technology based distance learning with school attendance--is perhaps the best way to educate students for 21st century skills, says Michael Horn in a "Kappan" interview. Horn points out…
Descriptors: Attendance, Information Technology, Distance Education, Blended Learning
Martinez, Monica R.; McGrath, Dennis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Helping students become responsible for their own learning is an incredibly challenging task since it requires transforming their previous, passive "sit-and-get" learning style into a go-and-get orientation. The authors present a collection of eight schools that offer valuable examples of how to develop students as self-directed…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Effective Schools Research, School Culture, Teaching Methods
Merz, Sandy; Wiebke, Kathy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Today's classrooms emphasize helping students learn not just for the sake of learning but to become prepared to join the workforce. While teachers across the U.S. know students must be ready for college and career, many may not be sure exactly which skills, competencies, and lessons they need to teach to prepare and animate students for the world…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, School Business Relationship, Job Skills, Educational Needs
Farris-Berg, Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
This article opens with a thought provoking question--When it comes to defining teacher leadership, how much do we limit ourselves by assuming that the way teachers work today must always be the way teachers work? The author points out that pioneering groups of public school teachers across the United States are advancing a new definition of…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Public School Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Partnerships in Education
Turchi, Laura; Thompson, Ayanna – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The Common Core generally eschews mandating texts in favor of promoting critical analysis and rigor. So it's significant that Shakespeare is the only author invoked in imperatives. His explicit inclusion offers a significant opportunity for educators to rethink how we approach Shakespearean instruction. Rather than the traditional learning of…
Descriptors: State Standards, English Literature, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Hatch, Thomas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Improving classroom practice requires more than simply having good ideas. Educators must focus on developing technical, human, and social capital both inside and outside schools.
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Hess, Frederick M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Good times are not just around the corner. Rather, at least for the next half-decade, educators are facing what Secretary Duncan has termed the "new normal." After three generations in which national, nominal per pupil spending went up every single year, learning to operate in an environment of flat or declining spending is a new challenge for…
Descriptors: Budgets, Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, Retrenchment
Peppler, Kylie; Bender, Sophia – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The maker movement consists of a growing culture of hands-on making, creating, designing, and innovating. A hallmark of the maker movement is its do-it-yourself (or do-it-with-others) mindset that brings individuals together around a range of activities, both high- and low-tech, all involving some form of creation or repair. The movement's…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Hands on Science, Communities of Practice
Gassenheimer, Cathy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Alabama Best Practices Center (ABPC) was formed to help educators spread innovation and scale up successful teaching and learning practices. ABPC is the professional development arm of A+ Education Partnership, a statewide business/community/education nonprofit founded in 1991 to advocate for excellent public schools. Since 1999, ABPC has…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Innovation, Academic Standards, Relationship
Berry, Barnett; Hess, Frederick M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Extended learning opportunities have emerged as a useful way to rethink how schools are organized and funded. That includes reconsidering who teaches and how they go about their work. That effort should be guided by four key policy considerations and goals: 1. Reengineer the role of teacher. 2. Rethink K-12, higher education, and community-based…
Descriptors: Extended School Day, Program Length, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky; Opfer, V. Darleen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
For students to learn 21st-century skills, we will have to teach them differently than we have in the past. The outdated, transmission model, through which teachers transmit factual knowledge to students via lectures and textbooks, remains the dominant approach to compulsory education in much of the world, yet it is not the most effective way to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
Radoslovich, Julie; Roberts, Shelley; Plaza, Andres – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
Committed to being a charter school with a professional learning community that empowers teachers, New Mexico's South Valley Academy (SVA) staff transformed its state evaluation process into a practitioner action research process (Anderson, Herr, & Nihlen, 2007). While teachers self-diagnose growth needs and play active roles in improving…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, Models, School Law
Moreno, Carlos; Luria, Dana; Mojkowski, Charles – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Responding to the need for game-changing innovation that will catapult student achievement, some school districts seek assistance from school development organizations that specialize in helping schools. But such work presents problems when schools try to adopt and adapt innovation and outside partners face challenges in encouraging schools to…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Partnerships in Education, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Change
Ferriter, William M.; Provenzano, Nicholas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Thousands of teachers are exploring the boundaries of their practice together on Twitter, in blogs, and at seminars, and they represent a new generation of educators who are actively redefining how innovation occurs in the schoolhouse. For many of these educators, exposure to adjacent possibilities--the first step toward innovation--starts in the…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Teacher Education, Professional Development, Computer Mediated Communication
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