In the 1980s when research on effective schools surfaced the importance of 'instructional
leadership'in the United States, skeptics wondered if this would be just another educational …

Current curriculum initiatives in mathematics call for the development of classroom
communities that take communication about mathematics as a central focus. In these …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

The current study investigates a mediated-effects model of distributed leadership and
teacher professional learning. The model proposes that teacher trust in school principal and …

Abstract In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools across the United States to
close their buildings and educational professionals transitioned to working from home. This …

Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve
opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of …

Recent research on teacher professional development (PD) underscores the importance of
the coherence of PD with standards, curriculum, and assessment. Teachers' judgments of …

This article examines an understudied aspect of teachers' sensemaking of student learning
data: the way in which teachers explain the causes of the outcomes observed in data …

An emerging trend in educational research is the use of social network theory and
methodology to understand how teacher collaboration can support or constrain teaching …

One of the central lessons from research on data use in schools and school districts is that
assessments, student tests, and other forms of data are only as good as how they are used …