A recent study found that giving middle school math teachers access to inquiry-based lesson plans and online support significantly improved student achievement —and benefited weaker teachers the most.

Recently passed teacher effectiveness legislation--in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and a number of other states--takes steps to link personnel decisions to teacher effectiveness, ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

This article is part of the collection: Social-Emotional Learning: Why It Matters and How to Foster It. Over Memorial Day weekend, I was with two of my friends who coach teachers at a San Francisco ...