Learning Agenda Area: Sustaining Long-Term Enactment of New Practices
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RPPL Awards Nine Research Grants to Advance Equitable Math Instruction
Last updated share: Nine projects are funded to improve high-quality instructional material in math to serve students who are Black, Latine, Indigenous, AAPI, Multilingual Learners, students with disabilities, and students …
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Instruction Partners: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning: A Q&A with Researchers
Instruction Partners, a RPPL member, interviewed RPPL Senior Researchers Heather C. Hill and John P. Papay to discuss emerging evidence on how effective PL features can inform school and system leadership decisions and how identity-affirming classrooms may benefit children.
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New Report Details Why Measuring Impact of Teacher Professional Learning is Key to Advancing Equitable Student Outcomes
RPPL’s latest paper, written by 10 professional learning organizations, identifies opportunities for innovation in measurement.
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Instruction Partners: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning: A Q&A with Researchers
Instruction Partners, a RPPL member, interviewed RPPL Senior Researchers, Heather C. Hill and John P. Papay, to discuss emerging evidence on how effective PL features can inform school and system leadership decisions and how identity-affirming classrooms may benefit children.
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Psychology Today: When Teachers Learn Better, Students Do Better
Psychology Today, the largest publishing enterprise exclusively dedicated to human behavior, recently published a blog post on RPPL’s work to help advance teacher professional learning and the importance of helping teachers learn better so that students can do better.
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TeachThought: Improving Teacher Learning
TeachThought, a podcast focused on professional learning and teacher training, interviewed RPPL Executive Director Stacey Alicea and Senior Researcher Heather Hill about RPPL’s “Building Better PL” brief, the organization’s goals, and what lies ahead in 2023.
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Leading Educators: 4 Classroom Challenges That Teacher PL Can Fix in 2023
RPPL’s Executive Director Stacey Alicea and the organization’s founding members were featured on Leading Educators’ blog, with a piece about the issues and challenges facing professional learning in 2023.
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Education Week: What Works—and What Doesn’t—in Teacher PD
Ed Week’s Madeline Will wrote about a new brief by RPPL Senior Researchers Heather Hill and John Papay that examines the strategies and techniques that make PL effective for educators and students. “Building Better PL: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning” is full of insights into “what” is most effective and “how” PL providers can best…
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Dr. Stacey Alicea Named RPPL’s First Executive Director
Last updated share: RPPL’s Advisory Board has named Dr. Stacey Alicea, a practitioner-researcher with experience in learning strategy, professional development, and capacity building, as the organization’s first executive director. Dr. …
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Education Week: 6 Myths About Teacher Professional Development
RPPL’s brief on common myths surrounding professional learning outlines how these beliefs often perpetuate the idea that professional development is a problem that needs fixing instead of the solution to education challenges that it could be. The piece, from RPPL Senior Researchers Heather Hill, John Papay, and Nate Schwartz, was published on Rick Hess’ blog,…