Improving professional practice, impacting student achievement
NSDC seeks high schools for the next cohort of Learning School Alliance schools
See the full list of schools that participate in the first cohort of LSA or view a select group of school profiles.
Please consider applying for membership in the next cohort of NSDC’s Learning School Alliance,
supported by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the MetLife Foundation. NSDC established the Learning School Alliance (LSA) to promote educator and student learning, and to showcase exemplars of professional learning communities that advance educator and student performance.
The Learning School process is based on research validating the contribution of professional learning communities in schools committed to improving the performance of both teachers and students. High school teachers and principals from up to 30 schools will gain knowledge and skills necessary for collaborative professional learning. Participants will receive coaching and facilitation in the following areas:
- Analyzing data on student performance to determine student and educator learning needs;
- Determining appropriate teaching strategies for addressing specific student needs;
- Selecting appropriate professional learning strategies to support understanding and transfer of new teaching strategies into classrooms;
- Applying professional learning protocols including examining student work;
- Designing lessons and building classroom assessments to improve instruction; and
- Conducting action research to promote ongoing improvement.
Applications are due April 15, 2010; participants will begin their work together at NSDC's 2010 Summer Conference in Seattle, July 18-21.
Participants will learn together in their own schools, with other schools through webinars and facilitated conversations, and at convenings hosted by NSDC. They will share openly their goals, their progress — and over time — their results.
NSDC appreciates the ongoing support of the MetLife Foundation that currently funds 45 schools active in four LSA communities that were established in 2009. Funding from Arthur Vining Davis Foundations is an acknowledgement of the success of this original work and an endorsement of its effectiveness.
Learn more and apply through the links below.
Questions? Contact Margaret Fair at
lsa@nsdc.org
NSDC is seeking facilitators to work with this new cohort of LSA schools.
Applications due April 1 --
learn more here.
