Research Behind the Model
The Learning Teams model is unique in that it was developed and refined through two decades of its own school-based research, a published research base that now informs the larger literature on professional learning communities and related applied professional development.
Foundational Learning Teams Research in the Primary Grades
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Freeman Elementary School Project: A Case Study Successful school change: Creating settings to improve teaching and learning By Claude...
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Learning Teams Scale-Up Study Increasing Achievement by Focusing Grade Level Teams on Improving Classroom Learning: A Prospective, Quasi-...
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Inside the Black Box of School Reform: Explaining the how and why of change at Getting Results schools By Dennis McDougall, William M....
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Moving the Learning of Teaching Closer to Practice: Teacher Education Implications of School-based Inquiry Teams By Ronald Gallimore, Bradley A....
Learning Teams Research in Middle and High Schools
Recent studies of the effectiveness of the Learning Teams model at the secondary level demonstrate similar outcomes to those observed in elementary schools:
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Tracing the effects of teacher inquiry on classroom practice By Bradley Ermeling, PhD. Published in Teaching and Teacher Education, 26 (...
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Implementation and Value Added Analysis of Learning Teams By Glen Daley, Ph.D. Inter-Office Report to Director of Research and Planning:...
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Analysis of Instructional Talk in Teacher Workgroup Meetings By Katherine McKnight, PhD and Angela Carlson-Bancroft, MA Evaluation Report to...
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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.”
Beth Wray, President, Pearson Learning Teams