TLC for K-8 Schools (PDF)

The TLC for K-8 Schools is a teacher professional development curriculum based on Antioch University Los Angeles’ Teaching-Learning Collaborative — a professional development project that took place from September 2004 to June 2006.

TLC for K-8 Schools contains a detailed, yet flexible professional development program for schools that would like to adapt it to their needs. It is designed to be implemented over a school year, with July and August devoted to planning. The curriculum is organized by month. Each monthly module contains the curriculum for day-long workshops for teachers; the modules also contain “Teacher Dialogs” that may be offered to a school’s entire faculty during required professional development time. 

TLC for Teachers PowerPoint

PowerPoint presentation gives more specifics

We’ve also included the TLC for Teachers PowerPoint presentation from which you can learn more about the TLC project; you may also adapt it to present to teachers and administrators at your school.

Classroom inquiry projects turn ideas into action

We’ve included the stories of several teachers’ classroom inquiry projects so that you, too, may see the power of teacher-directed inquiry for professional development. These amazing teachers conducted classroom inquiry projects that taught them (and all participants in the project) ways to improve instruction of English learners.