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The learning school: A clear vision leads to results

By Joan Richardson
Categories: Continuous improvement, Learning systems/planning
April 2008
Ensuring high-quality learning results for students begins with providing high-quality learning for the adults who work with those students. This has been NSDC’s message for many years. The NSDC Board of Trustees put an exclamation point on that message when it endorsed a new purpose last summer. The board wrote these words to describe the organization’s purpose: Every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so every student achieves. Sounds like a vision that everyone could support, doesn’t it? But, if you embrace that vision, what would your school look like every day? In a school that embraces NSDC’s vision of professional learning, every teacher is assigned to at least one learning team with peers from the school. These teams are organized by grade

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Joan Richardson ([email protected]) is an independent consultant and writer.


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