"Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment."
Effective learning communities engage in a cycle of continuous improvement involving each of the following steps:
- The use of data to determine student and educator learning needs
- Identification of shared goals for student and educator learning
- Professional learning to extend educators' knowledge of content, content-specific pedagogy, how students learn, and management of classroom environments
- Selection and implementation of appropriate evidence-based strategies to achieve student and educator learning goals
- Application of the learning with local support at the work site
- Use of evidence to monitor and refine implementation
- Evaluation of results