Instructional coaching has emerged as a prevalent and much-lauded instrument for capacity
building. This essay argues that coaching can be aligned with teacher evaluation systems to …

Effective education reform depends on its successful realization by the school leadership
carrying out the reform. School principals and middle leaders in the 21st century re-examine …

Background Despite increasing attention to STEM education worldwide, there is
considerable uncertainty as to what constitutes STEM education and what it means in terms …

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 …

This article adopts a complexity theory framework to review the literature on teachers'
professional development practices, the generative systems of these practices, and the …

Both the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and recent efforts to hold schools and
teachers accountable have been hotly debated among practitioners, policymakers, and the …

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

Purpose: Although it is expected that building schoolwide capacity for teacher learning will
improve teaching practices, there is little systematic evidence to support this claim. This …

Teachers' professional lives and their role in change efforts have always been central to the
Journal of Educational Change. Articles have addressed teachers' motivation for and …

Many school-improvement efforts include time for teacher collaboration, with the assumption
that teachers' collective work supports instructional improvement. However, not all …