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How to Build Schools Where Adults Learn

By Learning Forward
Categories: Learning designs
April 2014
In the current, very complex, and even conflicted discourse about schools, one thing is clear: Schools need to be about student learning. Schools need to ensure that students are good readers, proficient writers, capable mathematicians, competent scientists, and knowledgeable historians. Students also need to learn to work together, be healthy, be resilient, and care about others. There is a lot of learning to be done. However, some leaders of this student learning also understand that, in order for students to learn at high levels, the adults in schools must learn new programs, new strategies, new ways of working together, and even new ways of thinking about who their students are and what it means to be a teacher. In other words, there is a lot

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Kevin Fahey and Jacy Ippolito

Kevin Fahey ([email protected]) is a professor and Jacy Ippolito ([email protected]) is an assistant professor at Salem State University.

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Ippolito, J. (2013). Professional learning as the key to linking content and literacy instruction. In J. Ippolito, J.F. Lawrence, & C. Zaller (Eds.), Adolescent literacy in the era of the Common Core: From research into practice (pp. 235-249). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

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