Live From NSDC, St. Louis--I attended an interesting session this morning on “How Professional Development Fits Into Federal Policy,” led by NSDC Executive Director Stephanie Hirsh and NSDC Federal ...

Colleague Anthony Rebora, over at Education Week’s Teacher Magazine, is live-blogging the National Staff Development Council’s annual conference. He has a really great post up about the definition of ...

Last month I expressed disagreement the following statement from New Republic columnist Jonathan Chait, who wrote: The old liberal slogan always demanded that we “treat teachers like professionals.” ...

In the workplace of the past, professionalism was closely associated with prestige, tenure and inside-baseball. But nowadays, we tie professionalism directly to the competence or skill expected of a ...