Tag: collaboration

Full-length article “Overlapping Opportunities for Social-Emotional and Literacy Learning in Elementary-Grade Project-Based Instruction” by Fitzgerald published by the American Journal of Education available here. On a bright April afternoon, a third-grade teacher and her students walked to an open area on their school campus to play a “bird migration” game, in which the students, taking on the role

This is the third in our series on teacher evaluation policy. Teacher evaluation has been a major feature of education policy reform in the United States during the past ten years. The triumvirate of Race to the Top (2009) funding competition, the No Child Left Behind waivers (2011), and the passage of the Every Student

Since the days of the one room schoolhouse, teaching in the United States has been characterized as an isolated profession. Even as one-room schoolhouses gave way to massive schools – sometimes with thousands of students and hundreds of faculty – classrooms continued to resemble isolated, self-sufficient cells (Lortie, 1975). However, over the past two decades,