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Explore the latest updates on our programs, partnerships, and resources, and see how we’re creating better outcomes for students and harnessing the power of teaching to create a more just society.

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May 19, 2025

At a statewide numeracy conference on May 13, 2025, TeachingWorks and the New York State Education Department released a set of eight briefs focused on supporting evidence-based P–12 mathematics teaching practice. The briefs, developed and written by TeachingWorks (led by Director Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Associate Director Nicole Garcia), are grounded in peer-reviewed, evidence-based research […]

February 4, 2025

Everywhere you look these days, you see stories focused on the woeful state of public education in the U.S. From stories about pandemic learning loss questioning whether we’ll ever recover to stories purporting that education is “bleak.” But is this an accurate picture of what’s happening in U.S. education? And what do such claims mean […]

May 17, 2023

Listen to the Content Methods Laboratory Classes instructional team discuss how the laboratory classes will support our participating teacher candidates and observing teacher educators to connect the dots between teaching practice and advancing justice.

May 3, 2023

Listen to the Content Methods Laboratory Classes instructional team discuss what we mean by laboratory classes and how we use them to analyze the work of teaching and teacher education.

April 26, 2023

For the next three weeks, tune in for a series of conversations with the laboratory classes instructional team to explore the ins and outs of the program.

April 14, 2023

The program will be held July 24-28 at The School at Marygrove.

January 1, 2022

In this feature story in the centennial issue of Michigan Education Magazine, TeachingWorks team members reflected on our collective work to harness the power of teaching to create a just society. Click here to read the full article.

May 3, 2021

TeachingWorks Director of English Language Arts Dr. Monique Cherry-McDaniel spoke with University of St. Thomas Faculty members Dr. Amy Smith and Dr. Muffet Trout about how being fellows in the TeachingWorks Practice-Based Teacher Education Certificate Learning Sequence is supporting them to implement program-wide change in their department.

April 21, 2021

The conviction of Derek Chauvin is not an indictment of the white supremacist system that condones the senseless police killings of Black people as they drive their cars, walk home, and live in their communities.