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=Crozet Elementary School Professional Development = == //Create. Connect. Communicate. // Strengthening Our Craft ==

==//"True learning communities are characterized by disciplined, professional collaboration and ongoing assessment. ////This is the surest, most promising route to better school performance, and the reasons are compelling. Teachers do not learn best from outside experts or by attending conferences or implementing 'programs' installed by outsiders. Teachers learn best from other teachers in settings where they literally teach each other the art of teaching. For this to happen, collaboration had to occur in a radically different way....Productive collaboration could not be causal or general; it was instead characterized by frequent, continuous, and increasingly concrete and precise talk about teaching practice...adequate to the complexities of teaching and capable of distinguishing one practice and its virtue from another. " //==