Ideas & News

TeachingWorks interviews Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot from TeachingWorks at UMSOE on Vimeo. “View, Voice, and Visibility. Three V’s” These “three V’s” were the focus of Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s TeachingWorks Streaming Seminar talk entitled, “There is a Balm in Gilead: Forging the Connections Between Learning and Justice.” In a sit-down interview with TeachingWorks before her talk, Dr. Lawrence-Lightfoot said she is deeply […]

Meet TeachingWorks: Annie Blais from TeachingWorks at UMSOE on Vimeo. TeachingWorks is more than a faceless organization, it is a community of educators, researchers, students, and other change-makers dedicated to advancing education that disrupts injustice. Today, meet Annie Blais, an ELA Research & Design Specialist at TeachingWorks! Read the rest of our November newsletter here. 

On October 24, 2019, NBC News Learn hosted Education Now: Detroit, a special event that featured teachers, researchers, advocates, and community members from across Metro-Detroit who, in a series of panel discussions, examined a range of critical education issues in Michigan. These included examining student trauma and its’ impact on learning, addressing chronic absenteeism, combatting teacher […]

Teaching is Powerful from TeachingWorks at UMSOE on Vimeo. Teaching is Powerful. In honor of World Teachers’ Day, we are reminded that teaching has the power to has the power to make possible the dream of public education and a more just society. Read our October newsletter here. 

TeachingWorks has been named a new partner in 100kin10, a national network to grow the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching force. As part of its commitment to the program, TeachingWorks will use the Elementary Mathematics Laboratory (EML), to provide innovative professional development to at least 250 elementary and secondary classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, […]

100kIn10, a national organization dedicated to improving STEM education across the country, has highlighted TeachingWorks in its latest report, Doing the Math, for our work to advance skillful elementary mathematics teaching that disrupts injustice in classrooms. Read the full report here. 

TeachingWorks wishes you a wonderful school year! Check out some of these news items and resources that will help you gear up for this year! Read the September 2019 newsletter here. 

TeachingWorks has officially launched the TeachingWorks Resource Library, a free, online collection of practice-based curriculum materials for teacher educators to use for preparing novice teachers. Led by TeachingWorks Director of Resource Development Adina Lopatin, the resource library builds on ongoing research and collaboration between TeachingWorks and teacher educators from across the country to develop more effective […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation has awarded TeachingWorks a grant to continue collaborative work begun in 2017 with faculty in California State University to further develop exemplary practices-based approaches in teacher education. Led by TeachingWorks director Deborah Loewenberg Ball and mathematics research specialist Amber Willis, methods course instructors from across the […]