Academic instructors, hired for their content expertise, are rarely trained in skills like classroom facilitation or community-building. But successful collaborative learning requires a degree of ...

The cultivation of a professional learning community in which university teaching staff can swap ideas, advice and assistance is a big support when implementing institutional curriculum reforms.

When a school can be described as a Professional Learning Community (PLC) its capacity to promote sustainable improvement and pupil learning is enhanced, according to a new study from Bristol ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

We’ve all been in meetings where leaders are asked to collaborate, yet the room doesn’t feel collaborative at all. Andy Hargreaves once called this contrived collaboration, which occurs when ...

The ´Let´s Bet on Community Changes´ strategy in Peru aims to establish or reactivate the Pedagogical Technical Teams of ECE in each UGEL (educational management unit) at the national level. These ...

Teachers teaching teachers: A professional learning community for educators ProEd methodology promotes the concept of the Professional Learning Community (PLC), about which much has been written in ...

In 2019, the government pledged to increase the registered nursing workforce by 50,000 posts. In support of this, an acute hospital trust increased its clinical placement capacity for student nurses ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...