Lesson study is the primary form of professional development for Japanese teachers. Its goal is continual improvement of teaching so that children will learn more. Its primary focus is how students ...

The AFT currently supports lesson study groups in Rochester, N.Y., Volusia County, Fla., and Scranton, Pa. These groups emerged as a natural and powerful follow-up to training in the ER&D Thinking ...

Now that the second semester is underway and both classrooms and lessons have settled down, this is the season when ...

Are you doing lesson study, and if so – are you doing it correctly? Two academics explain what many schools get wrong Lesson study is a professional development strategy that originated in Japan and ...

Research consistently shows that teacher effectiveness and satisfaction with our work increases when we are able to engage in deep and meaningful collaboration. Earlier this month I wrote about one ...

Vicki S. Collet agreed to answer a few questions about her book, Collaborative Lesson Study: ReVisioning Teacher Professional Development. Vicki Collet is an associate professor of curriculum and ...