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Thiers, Naomi – Educational Leadership, 2016
Richard DuFour, a leading advocate for creating professional learning communities in schools, shares his insights on why teaching has become an "embattled profession" and the steps teachers and school leaders can take to enhance teachers' practice and their working lives. DuFour explains how recent reforms aimed at educators themselves…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Morale, Academic Achievement, Educational Change
Donovan, Margaret; Galatowitsch, Patrick; Hefferin, Keri; Highland, Shanita – Educational Leadership, 2013
The "David" is Fern Creek Elementary, a small urban school in Orlando, Florida, that serves an overwhelmingly disadvantaged student population. The "Goliaths" are the mountains of problems that many inner-city students face--poverty, homelessness, mobility, instability, limited parent involvement, and violent neighborhood…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Effective Schools Research, Teamwork, Educational Practices