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Increase your peer observation skills by exploring its three components and using sample questions from Collaborating Through Collective Efficacy Cycles.

What we all need is time to focus and cut down on the noise. We need time to breathe and engage in conversations that focus on deeper impact...but we won’t get that time back until we begin taking some things off our plates.

How do teachers, students, parents, school leaders, and admin-istrators build an antiracist school system?

The cessation of overtly racist practices is not enough to halt the effects of racism. We need, in the words of Ibram X. Kendi, to become antiracists—as teachers, school leaders, parents, and community members.

"Think about two leaders in your professional life, one with strong credibility and one without. Did you choose to follow the one without strong credibility?"

A growing body of work has pointed to the use of data to inform decisions concerning the level of students’ growth and achievement made by states, school districts, school administrators, teachers, and the broader community. However, one could say that a “faceless glut” of data is both a political and a systemic pathological problem facing educators almost everywhere. With so much information available,

"There are certain fundamental questions that plague educational practice, none more perplexing than: How do we know specifically THAT something has been accomplished; exactly HOW was it carried out; and WHAT should we do to make it better the next time?"

"This book points the way toward a coherent set of policies, tools, and practices designed that educational systems can use to ensure quality teaching in all communities." - Linda Darling-Hammond on Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning

"This work resulted in a core set of research-based actions, approaches, and enabling conditions that effective schools and systems have put in place to reinforce and amplify the power of high-quality curriculum and skillful teaching. We call these the Elements of curriculum-based professional learning, or simply the Elements." - Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning

Explore the shifts required to move towards curriculum-based professional learning in this excerpt from Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning.

Peter Dewitt discusses the concept of de-implementation and why it’s a term that should be on every leader’s mind.

"There are two prevailing issues with how we work to solve problems in education..."