Instructional improvement initiatives in many districts include instructional coaching as a
primary form of job-embedded support for teachers. However, the coaching literature …

Learning progressions are the successively more sophisticated ways of thinking about an
idea that follow one another over a broad span of time. This review examines the research …

One of the central lessons from research on data use in schools and school districts is that
assessments, student tests, and other forms of data are only as good as how they are used …

To identify links among professional development, teacher knowledge, practice, and student
achievement, researchers have called for study designs that allow causal inferences and …

This paper focuses on an unceremonious type of formative assessment–informal formative
assessment–in which much of what teachers and students do in the classroom can be …

Data use, or drawing on and interacting with information in the course of decision making,
has emerged as a key strategy intended to foster improvement in public schools and …

Background/Context The collegial analysis of student work artifacts has been effective in
advancing the practice of experienced teachers; however, the use of such strategies as a …

This chapter considers the theoretical and empirical foundations for assessment literacy,
proposes a model for assessment literacy, describes a case of the model in action, and …

Science education stakeholders worldwide are engaged in efforts to support teachers'
noticing and making sense of students' thinking in science. Here we introduce the design of …

Educators are increasingly being called upon to collaborate in ways that leverage expertise
across schools as they work together to improve teaching and learning. In this study we use …