The following is an excerpt from Dr. Chris Scott's Superintendent's Corner:
The work that we have done in the district to establish professional learning communities which focuses on collaboration at every grade level in order to improve student achievement is the key to our school reform efforts. Educators are given the opportunity to collectively pool their professional skills in order to analyze the data and determine the most appropriate instructional strategies for their students.
We are establishing the “cycle of inquiry” at every grade level so that educators have the opportunity to have professional conversations about teaching and learning. We believe that we will be able to continue to move our district forward because our focus has been and will continue to be on building internal capacity through the on-going promotion of healthy professional learning communities.
This work has received both national and state recognition by the American Federation of Teachers [AFT]. Please refer to our district’s blog: lowellpublic.blogspot.com where this story is posted, as it appears on the front page of the AFT Massachusetts journal The Advocate March 2010.
As many have heard me say “Lowell Public Schools is the coolest Urban School District” and we have many reasons to be proud – this successful initiative is just another example.
To see the full issue of the Superintendent's Corner as well as previous copies, please visit our website at www.lowell.k12.ma.us
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