About Networks

Our Achievement Initiatives Team organizes most all of our work in the form of learning networks. We understand this is a departure from traditional professional development offered in the way of one-day trainings or off-the-shelf conferences or speakers. This bold long-term, collaborative approach of network development creates promising impacts for student learning and outcomes. Whether you are a teacher, an administrator, or anyone who wants to think differently about teacher professional development, we encourage you to learn more about our work and the resources that inform it. Please contact us with any questions or feedback. 

---

Resources on which we base our work

Resources on which we base our work:

• Leading School-based Networks
• Social Network Theory by Alan Daly
• Linda Argote. Knowledge transfer between groups via personnel rotation: Effects of social identity and knowledge quality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes v96 (2005) p56–7
  
• Social Networks in Education Literature Review & Proposed Research Design, Hanover 2014
  
  

Additional articles supporting network approaches

• The Quality of Professional Learning Will Influence its Results
  

Learn more about how we are using networks

Overview: What is a Network 
Reading Apprenticeship: A fully realized network
Lifecycle of our Networks

Publications about our networks 

• Michigan Reading Journal (2015) v7, n2. The Study of Early Literacy: A Network Model for Teacher Professional Development.
• Literacy Today, International Literacy Association (July/August 2015). Content Area Collaboration: How Teachers Can Work Together This School Year to Improve Student Writing. 
• ​InspirED

Presentations about our networks 

AESA 2015 -- Teacher Learning Networks: Soaring to New Heights
AESA 2010 -- Literacy Networks