23 Learning Teams school districts around the country
175 Learning Teams schools across 5 states
1,246 teacher workgroups and growing
6200+ participating teachers
"I believe we’re changing the culture and climate of the school."
23 Learning Teams school districts around the country
175 Learning Teams schools across 5 states
1,246 teacher workgroups and growing
6200+ participating teachers
“I can’t imagine going back to the old way of professional development… This is the best resource we have ever had that enables our best resources—the teachers—to improve instruction that results in increased student achievement.”
LT is one of the only programs to have scientifically isolated the effects of teacher collaboration on student achievement
LT holds the most number of peer-reviewed publications around effective teacher collaboration
Learning Teams aligns with ARRA’s Teaching Effectiveness Requirements
“The AERJ study provides independent, research-based evidence that our Pearson Learning Teams model leads to significant gains in student performance. [T]hese results are especially meaningful as the Race to the Top education reform efforts are focusing increased attention and funding toward teaching effectiveness and strategies that improve student performance.”
Over 175 Learning Teams schools currently undergo comprehensive program evaluation throughout the year designed to strengthen implementation and achieve results
Effective collaborative learning communities can lead to improved teacher discourse, instructional leadership, and teacher retention
“As an administrator, to be able to participate in authentic, research-based, teacher-generated professional development—you can’t ask for something better!”
LT is one of the only programs to have scientifically isolated the effects of teacher collaboration on student achievement
LT holds the most number of peer-reviewed publications around effective teacher collaboration
Learning Teams aligns with ARRA’s Teaching Effectiveness Requirements
“Collaborative approaches to professional learning can promote school change that extends beyond individual classrooms. When all teachers in a school learn together, all students in the school benefit.”
Pearson LT promotes collaborative learning in Learning Teams Investment Schools around the country
"Our teacher workgroups have become professional learning communities. Data discussions have taken place, and student needs in ten core subject areas have been identified. It is our belief that this wonderful collaborative effort of preparing to meet the needs of students will foster improvement in student achievement."
“We’re building the leadership of the teachers and the administrators, and really providing support for the teachers… We’re actually teaching them a protocol which is a continuous cycle of improvement model.”
“We learned the lesson long ago that merely assigning teachers to teams does not mean that educator and student performance improves… Educators committed to learning teams will benefit most from protocols that prioritize identifying and addressing learning goals for educators based on an assessment of student needs as part of the team cycle of improvement.”
In a 5-year comparison study, achievement in Learning Team schools rose by 41 percent overall and 58 percent for Hispanic students, relative to a comparable group of schools that did not deploy teacher teams (Saunders et al., in press).
“The #1 goal is improving student achievement… We’re getting a change in the conversation in our schools, better lessons for our youngsters, teachers to reexamine practice. We’re getting results for students. It is all translating to student performance.”
“As the Administrator in charge, it gives me a sense of meaning, knowing that something is working, going well collaboratively in a professional development. I tell you that it is the highlight of my life sometimes when I come here and hear you folks discuss meaningful problems.”
