This paper investigates how teachers' professional agency afforded and constrained their
decisions to participate in or withdraw from professional learning communities (PLCs). While …

Research and experience reveal that innovative teaching approaches promoted by
mathematics education researchers differ significantly from the day-to-day practices of …

Purpose: Collaborative workgroups can be particularly fruitful sites for teachers to learn and
improve. Prior research has illustrated how teachers' engagement in collaboration differs …

Research on the teaching and learning of mathematics has made significant progress in
recent years. However, this work has had only limited impact on classroom instruction in …

Reading, like all areas of human learning, is complex and multidimensional. Educational
psychology has an opportunity to contribute further to a science of reading, and potentially to …

Policy implementation research indicates that local contexts and school factors shape how
teacher collaboration efforts are implemented in schools. By evaluating a statewide teacher …

As a field, education has focused on changing teachers' instructional knowledge and skills
and the content that students learn. Yet, our education system is not reliably delivering …

Resources are important for all joint work and learning, and particularly for collaborative
professional work and learning among teachers. They provide a means for the design of …

For nearly three decades, mathematics research has indicated the need for high-quality
mathematics instruction including both ambitious and equitable practices, as well as …

Our overall goal in this chapter is to clarify and illustrate key characteristics of improvement
research that investigate supports for teachers to improve the quality of their instruction and …