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National School Reform Faculty: Learning Communities Protocols and Activities
This extensive collection of protocols and strategies from the National School Reform Faculty is an essential resource for those facilitating professional development. There are protocols on everything from looking at student work to professional dialogue on problematic classroom scenarios…
"Save the Last Word for Me" Protocol
This protocol is designed for participants to clarify and deepen thinking about reading. Groups may engage with it as part of an institute, teacher study group, or professional meeting. It provides a structure that enables participants to engage in close reading and sharing in a low-risk…
Protocols: Looking at Student Work (for participants) and Looking at Student Work (for facilitator)
This protocol from the Hudson Valley Writing Project takes teachers through the steps of looking at student work in a professional development session. The accompanying script helps a facilitator to guide participants through the “turns” in the protocol process. Adapted from the Prospect…
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.