Last year, a school made personalized, student-centered learning a major focus of professional learning. Through workshops, staff meetings, PLCs, and coaching conversations, teachers explored how to: increase student voice and choice tailor instruction to learners’ strengths, needs, and interests create more collaborative and authentic learning experiences support students in setting goals and reflecting […]

Many efforts to change teaching practice start in the wrong place. School leaders and instructional coaches often focus on shifting teachers’ beliefs and attitudes, assuming practice will follow. Tom Guskey’s work challenges that assumption, showing that belief change more often results from successful changes in classroom practice—especially when those changes lead to improved student learning. […]