Collective Practice, Quality Teaching
Voices in Urban Education 27
To maintain teaching quality in hard-to-staff schools, education leaders need to view teaching not just as an individual act, but as a collective activity within and beyond school walls. (Spring 2010)

Educating Newcomers: Voices in Urban Education 15
This issue of Voices in Urban Education offers five perspectives on ways that schools can ensure that immigrant students succeed. (2007)

Extending Learning: Voices in Urban Education 16
Ensuring that all young people graduate from public high schools with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed as adults will require integrating high-quality, equitable educational opportunities in school with extended learning beyond the school day. (2007)

Toward Proficiency: Voices in Urban Education 14
This issue of Voices in Urban Education offers five perspectives on what “proficiency” looks like and how students can learn in and out of school to reach that goal. (2007)

Educating Vulnerable Pupils: Voices in Urban Education 12
This issue of Voices in Urban Education shares five ways to address the needs of the most vulnerable pupils. (2006)

Tools for School Improvement Planning
This Web site is designed to help school and district practitioners and community members use data effectively in school-improvement efforts. (Archived 2006)

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Coaches in the High School Classroom: Studies in Implementing High School Reform
Intended to provide fuel for discussion, the portraits of six coaches in Boston and Houston are interspersed with guiding questions and followed by several tools that can be used for further discussion, assessment, and analysis of coaching programs. (2005)

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Adolescent Literacy: Voices in Urban Education 3
In this issue of Voices in Urban Education, four authors share the latest knowledge and thinking about the critical issue of adolescent literacy. (2004)

Inquiry and Action: A School Improvement Guide
The School-Improvement Guide describes a school self-study cycle of inquiry and action, designed to help a school community develop the habits of collaboration, discussion, inquiry, and data-informed decision making that fuel ongoing improvement. (2004)

Instructional Coaching
This package includes two publications describing the strategies of professional learning communities and instructional coaching and what we have learned about using them effectively. (2004)

Coaching: A Strategy for Developing Instructional Capacity
This 48-page paper describes what coaching is, what coaches do, the kinds of supports that coaches need, and the potential benefits to both educators and students. (2003)

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Generally Accepted Principles of Teaching and Learning
This document identifies seven major tenets of effective teaching and learning. (2002)

Looking at Teaching and Learning Through Peer Observation
This video package highlights peer observation — a promising method for building collaborative learning and reflection among adults in schools and districts. (2002)

Stages of Team Development: Lessons from the Struggles of Site-Based Management
Drawing on their more than 30 years of experience in school reform, Nancy Mohr and Alan Dichter talk about the purpose of shared decision making and about what they now know about helping a faculty become a learning organization. (2002)

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Assessment in Math and Science: What's the Point?
Join K-12 teachers from across the country in this eight-part series of live, interactive workshops on math and science assessment (2001)

Principles for Principals
A free video workshop series by, for, and about principals working to improve student achievement in mathematics and science. (2001)

Principals in the Line of Fire: The Challenges of Authentic Leadership
This video package offers a first step in creating a forum for leadership growth through peer exchange and support. (2001)

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Critical Friends Groups in Action
This two-tape video package offers an inside look at how groups of educators from two very different schools developed habits and practices to support collaborative work. (1999)

Critical Issues in School Reform
A three-part television series produced in collaboration with the Annenberg Channel, part of the eight-part series Critical Issues In School Reform, for teachers, administrators, parents, and anyone involved in or interested in school improvement. (1999)

Investigation: A Water Study
This print-and-video package is designed to help teachers and administrators recognize the values of inquiry-based learning and consider how they might prepare themselves to undertake investigations with their students. (1999)

Looking at Student Work: A Window into the Classroom
This important and practical resource explores a variety of ways in which looking at student work can help improve teaching and learning. (1999)

Professional Community and the Problems of Change: An Address by Robert Evans
In this address to a national gathering of the National School Reform Faculty, organizational psychologist Robert Evans addresses teachers and administrators who are seeking to improve their standards and improve teaching and learning. (1999)

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Balancing Caring and Expectations in the Science Classroom
This video package documents how Fairdale High School in suburban Louisville is motivating kids to grapple with the issues and skills of science. (1998)

Balancing Routines and Repertoire in the Math Classroom
This video package documents how Whittier High School in Southern Calfornia is getting kids excited about learning and applying academic skills, without compromising rigorous standards. (1998)

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A Culture of Quality: A Reflection on Practice
A complex meditation on the features of an educational community that has conscientiously developed a culture of quality in an ordinary but far-from-typical American school. (1996)