This article presents a shift from traditional “technical” professional development (PD) to a PD of “praxis” and reflects on the benefits and barriers that this entails. Often, PD in digital ...

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has updated which majors fall under its definition of “professional” degrees, and student loans could be affected in the long term. Under the revamped definition ...

As educational leaders with a combined experience of over 70 years, we have championed efforts to support collaboration for teachers while finding ourselves in a siloed and often lonely position of ...

Some online students are already deeply engaged as members, officers or even founders of clubs and learning communities. At the same time, others might be asking — does my school even have clubs?

When Becca Ludwig came to Ohio State in 2025 she didn’t worry about making friends or finding community despite the university’s large enrollment and physical size: she had her living-learning ...

During the past decade, the Escalon Unified School District has embarked on the establishment and development of something called a PLC, or Professional Learning Community. At the heart of the PLC is ...

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 ...

As a high school principal, I found myself dabbling in professional learning communities. I knew PLCs were important because there was a box to check on the state’s principal summative evaluation that ...

AI is changing how we create, deliver and measure learning. But in my experience working in professional development, the seismic shifts we’re seeing in this sector aren't rooted in AI tool adoption ...

A heat wave can turn a classroom without proper cooling into an oven. Excessive heat can interfere with the learning process of any child—but in the U.S., the students who are most affected are ...

Students at Rutgers-New Brunswick moved into the new Discovery Advantage First-Year Neighborhood this week, a living-learning community at the Busch Engineering Science and Technology Hall in ...