Who We Are

We are dedicated group of instructional designers, technologists, professional developers, and school practitioners who support school leaders in their efforts to build best practice learning communities. We measure of effectiveness on how well schools grow in their capacity to build knowledge sharing practices among faculty and monitor their effect on student learning. We accomplish these goals by transforming traditional school web sites into professional learning portals and through leadership development seminars and workplace learning experiences.

What We Believe

"If we apply knowledge to tasks we already know how to do, we call it productivity. If we apply knowledge to tasks that are new and different, we call it innovation."
                                                        Peter Drucker

We believe that increased student achievement comes through constant attention to improved professional practice at every level in a school system and that...

• Drive-by-staff development is ineffective.
• On the job adult learning development is critical.

We believe that improved student achievement is ensured when schools systematically build standards of practice to ...

• Evaluate their impact on student learning.
• Study the effect of their professional development processes on faculty and student learning.
• Monitor their knowledge building and sharing practices.

We believe that schools cultivate best practice learning communities when they...

• Make improved student learning the driving idea of everything they do.
• Understand that each school's ability to learn, build and share knowledge is its greatest asset.
• Assess each educator's contribution to student learning, school improvement, and knowledge building efforts

We believe that technology can accelerate the development of a best practice learning community and sustain its growth if it...

• Used as a collaborative learning tool.
• Centers principals and teachers upon knowledge building and sharing practices.
• Embedded into the daily work and learning pf principals and teachers.

What We Do

"What allows members to share knowledge is not the choice of a specific form of communication (face-to-face as opposed to web-based), but the existence of shard practice---a common set of situations, problems, and perspectives."

          Etienne Wenger, Cultivating Communities of Practice, p. 25.

We equip school principals and teachers with shared practices and web tools that integrate into their daily work and learning.

We support school leaders in the development and implementation of job-embedded professional development practices.

We transform traditional school web sites into collaborative practice portals.

We provide on-site, phone, e-learning, and e-coaching support to school leaders engaged in standards-based reform.

We measure the impact of faculty knowledge building and sharing on student learning through a web-based learning management system.