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Professional Learning
Professional learning is essential for helping teachers strengthen instructional practices and improve the quality of their interactions with students. Research shows that sustained, high-quality professional learning, beyond one-time training, enables teachers to integrate new strategies effectively and adapt instruction to meet students’ needs. Building our knowledge of effective professional learning ensures educators have opportunities to continually grow their skills, supporting better outcomes for all students.
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SEEDS of Early Learning: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Early Literacy Teacher Professional Development Program
This clustered randomized controlled trial (RCT) examined the impact of the SEEDS PD program on students’ oral language, literacy, and social-emotional outcomes.
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Elevating Classroom Learning Conditions: An Evaluation of the Elevate Platform’s 2023 Direct Support Implementation Model
This report summarizes an efficacy analysis of the Project for Education Research that Scale’s (PERTS’s) Elevate tool, a progress-monitoring tool for middle and high school teachers to capture insights from students, reflect on the feedback, select instructional practices, and assess changes in student perceptions.
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Does Teacher Professional Development Improve Student Learning? Evidence from Leading Educators’ Teacher Fellowship Model
This is a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study of Leading Educators, a teacher professional development program designed to improve students’ math and English language arts achievement.
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The Impact and Implementation of Leading Educators’ Chicago Collaborative Teacher Professional Development Program
This is randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Leading Educators, a teacher professional development program designed to improve elementary- and middle-school students’ math and English language arts achievement.
Completed
Learning Conditions Are an Actionable, Early Indicator of Math Learning
This report sought to quantify the relationship between math achievement and learning conditions in the Elevate framework, and explore variability in conditions over time.
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Evaluating the Impact of the Modern Classrooms Project PLCAR Model on Teaching and Student Math Outcomes
This study evaluates the impact of a professional learning and curricular model, Modern Classrooms Project, on teacher practice and upper elementary student math achievement.
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Developing and Evaluating AI Tools to Improve Teacher Feedback in Writing Instruction
This study develops and tests artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to improve the quality, alignment, and efficiency of teacher-provided feedback on student writing.
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Evaluating the Impact of AI-Enabled Coaching on Teacher Practice and Student Outcomes
This set of studies evaluates whether and how artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coaching tools can improve teacher professional learning, instructional practice, and student outcomes.
Open Research Questions
Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
- The Impact and Implementation of Leading Educators’ Chicago Collaborative Teacher Professional Development Program
- Elevating Classroom Learning Conditions: An Evaluation of the Elevate Platform’s 2023 Direct Support Implementation Model
In-progress studies that address this question are:
Completed study findings aligned with these questions in our repository include:
- SEEDS of Early Learning: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Early Literacy Teacher Professional Development Program
- Does Teacher Professional Development Improve Student Learning? Evidence from Leader Educators’ Teacher Fellowship Model
- Elevating Classroom Learning Conditions: An Evaluation of the Elevate Platform’s 2023 Direct Support Implementation Model
- The Impact and Implementation of Leading Educators’ Chicago Collaborative Teacher Professional Development Program
- Elevating Classroom Learning Conditions: An Evaluation of the Elevate Platform’s 2023 Direct Support Implementation Model
In-progress studies that address these questions are:
Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
In-progress studies that address this question are:
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