Scaling up Teacher Learning: Sharing Knowledge and Spreading Ideas Across Geographies

• In Event: International Perspectives on Capacity for Change

Abstract

This research reports data from case studies of three intermediary organizations facing the challenge of scaling up teacher learning. The turn of the century launched scaling up efforts of all three intermediaries, growing from intimate groups, where founding teachers and staff were key supports for teacher learning, to large multi-state organizations. The authors drew on data from three earlier qualitative studies as well as newly gathered data of professional development at Big Picture Learning, Expeditionary Learning, and the Internationals Network, and reveal some of the challenges and benefits of taking teacher learning to scale.

Authors

• Meg A. Riordan, EL Education

• Emily J. Klein, Montclair State University

• Reva Jaffe-Walter, Montclair State University