Highlights
What Must Be Done in the Next Two Years
- Accountable Talk® Self-Study Tool
- Clear Expectations Self-Study Tool
- Principles of Learning Self-Study Tool
An Opportunity for Elementary Schools to Receive Free Professional Development on the IFL's Learning Walk® Routine
The Learning Leadership Study, funded by IES, is a collaboration between the IFL and Northwestern and Carnegie Mellon Universities. Participating elementary schools will be divided randomly into two groups. One group of schools will get professional development to implement The Learning Walk routine. A second group will first have access to IFL's Accountable Talk® Self-Study Tool and, later, participate in IFL's Introduction to the Learning Walk Routine facilitated online workshop. The study will help us to understand the links between leadership, classrooms, and student achievement. For more information contact Pam Goldman at IFL or visit the Learning Leadership Study website.
Online Facilitated Workshops
I enjoyed this, my first encounter with online education, and see that it has great possibilities. It was informative to have people from all across the country in the "classroom." And it was helpful to be able to adjust the class schedule to my own, instead of having to be at a certain place at a certain time as in regular classes.
Ask the Educator
Why is it important to let students work on a math task without first showing them how to solve it?
Idorenyin (Ido) Jamar discusses why it is important to let students work on a mathematics task without first showing them how to solve it.
How can we use high-level tasks to promote equity in the mathematics classroom?
Margaret (Peg) Smith discusses the importance of high-level tasks in developing students capacity to think, reason, and problem solve and the ways in which high-level tasks can provide all students with access to challenging mathematical content.
What is the importance of engaging students in talk in the science class?
Sam Spiegel discusses why student talk is important in the science classroom.
Why should all students read to get the gist?
Stephanie M. McConachie discusses why all students need to read to get the gist as part of the Institute for Learning's Patterned Way of Reading, Writing, and Talking.
How does Accountable Talk® promote learning?
Lauren B. Resnick discusses how Accountable Talk® promotes learning.
What can we do to improve mathematics and science for all students?
William F. Tate IV addresses high quality mathematics and science education for all students.
What ideas should guide our thinking about the education of English Language Learners?
Claude Goldenberg discusses why all students need to read to get the gist as part of the Institute for Learning's Patterned Way of Reading, Writing, and Talking.