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THE PRACTICE: Professional development should be primarily school-based and built into the day-to-day work of teaching.
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National Partnership for Excellence & Accountability in Teaching

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A Change of Course
http://www.nfie.org/course.htm
"A Change of Course" is the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education's (NFIE) program to improve the quality and availability of professional development for public school teachers, education support personnel, and higher education faculty and staff.
Action Research Update: Constructing Knowledge
http://www.ufttc.org/publications/specialedition14/spedhome14.html
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Article in UFT's Special Edition, Volume 14 about Constructing Knowledge: Building Communities of Learners through Job-Embedded Professional Development (CK), an action research project conducted during the 2000-2001 school year by the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Lab at Brown University (LAB). Action research was the vehicle used to engage participants in a quest to develop habits of mind for collaboration and inquiry. The goals were to build growing communities of learners to work with local evidence and ultimately to alter their practices based on findings resulting from their inquiry. Article includes outline of project design and case studies for several sites.
Classroom Management Tech Tips
http://www.techlearning.com/pdq/index.jhtml;jsessionid=BI3KT
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Technology and Learning Magazine offers these PDQ (Professional Development QuickTips) targeting classroom management of technology resources. The tips should be valuable for teachers starting to integrate technology into their curriculum.
Creating Clusters: Study Groups for Professional Learning
http://www.ufttc.org/publications/specialedition14/spedhome14.html
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Article in UFT's Special Edition, Volume 14 about study groupwss as primary vehicles for professional development in the Teacher Center at Theodore Roosevelt High School. the Bronx, NY. specific examples given about what they do.
IMPACT
http://projects.terc.edu/impact/
IMPACT is a five-year project striving to accelerate the implementation of standards-based instructional materials throughout New England. The Center for Advancement of Science and Mathematics Education plans to build on existing regional structures to provide the information, resources and support for districts and their teachers in this next step in educational reform. The site describes this reform plan.

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