A goal for any school or district that is undertaking a change process is to ensure that the change through professional learning is both impactful and sustainable. Often, professional learning sessions result in immediate positive outcomes, but these outcomes may not be sustained over time.
It’s pretty clear that students learn more when they believe that they can learn from their teachers. That’s a generalization of the evidence on teacher credibility. More specifically, teacher credibility is high when students: Trust their teachers and see their teachers as honest and reliable;
Last month we wrestled with the sentence starter, “If I could open my own school, I would…”. Read that blog post here. As I let my imagination run wild, I was led to an interesting finding in the research: what happens inside of the school matters more than the school type (see Hattie & Zierer,