From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change

Time Is the Essence

Renee Frank Holtz earned her PhD in Curriculum and Teaching from Fordham University, an MSEd in Special Education from the Johns Hopkins University and MA in Judaic Studies from Baltimore Hebrew University. She is currently the Coordinator of Academic Support at the...

From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change

Letter from the Editor

One of my mentors, Fred Jones (www.fredjones.com) says there are two kinds of new teachers: those who are naturals and those who are not. The first time I heard him say that it really hit me – mainly because I was not a natural. I spent my first two years of teaching...

From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change

Professional Learning Community PostScript

The Professional Learning Community that we started (see Jewish Educational Leadership 6:1 Fall 2007, p. 49) with the Task Force for Meeting Individual Needs has not continued as a distinct entity. It has, however, left us with a powerful model for implementing...

From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change

Building a Professional Learning Community (PLC): A Primer

Heather Clifton is a former teacher, curriculum and staff development specialist, and elementary school principal, currently working as a consultant in the Denver metropolitan area. She can be reached at heather.clifton@adams12.org. Peggy Kasloff is the Principal of...

From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change

Models of Professional Development

Heather Clifton is a former teacher, curriculum and staff development specialist, and elementary school principal, currently working as a consultant in the Denver metropolitan area. She can be reached at heather.clifton@adams12.org. Peggy Kasloff is the Principal of...

From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change

Effective Coaching in PLCs

Heather Clifton is a former teacher, curriculum and staff development specialist, and elementary school principal, currently working as a consultant in the Denver metropolitan area. She can be reached at heather.clifton@adams12.org. Peggy Kasloff is the Principal of...

From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change

Doubling the Agenda: Improving Student and Adult Performance

Patricia Ruane is Superintendent of Schools in Hopedale, MA, and led the Harvard Principals Center Institute on School Improvement for Jewish Day School Leaders, sponsored by Avi Chai in 2005. Dr. Ruanes consultation and mentoring of Jewish School leaders includes...

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