Making Professional Learning Stick

Knowing the stages educators tend to go through as they implement a new approach makes it easier to support them.

When professional learning is interdependent, a teacher's individual success hinges on the efforts of the entire team. That's a good thing.

For virtual professional development to stick, make it engaging, challenging, and EPIC.

Professional development for antiracism must address gaps in educators' awareness and understanding of racial inequities.

The before and after of a professional learning event is as important as the event itself.

How lessons from the pandemic can help reshape teacher learning.

Teacher-led PD can be powerful—but leaders need to create the right conditions for it.

Six steps to evidence-based professional learning that makes a difference.

When students are involved in teacher professional development, the experience has greater traction and long-term impact.

Teacher research clubs can help teachers engage in specific problems of practice—and have fun in the process.

We must rethink—not regurgitate—PD as it moves online.

With some ingenuity, universal response systems can still work in remote and hybrid learning. Watch the video.

Schools must step up and become engines for equity.

Race can be an important—and enriching—lens to apply to any unit of study.

Thanks to the previous administration, President Biden inherits a divisive debate around charters.

Reader responses to recent issues of EL.

Readers share their favorite out-of-the-box ways to get helpful professional learning.

An interview with authors William Parrett and Kathleen Budge, internationally recognized for their work studying high-poverty schools that are also high-performing and improving outcomes for students who live in poverty.

Key takeaways from the 2020 report "The Valuable Role of Edtech Coaches During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey" by Digital Promise.

A review of the 2020 book, Lead with Instructional Rounds by Vicki Wilson.