News & Ideas

Keeping our growing community of partners and supporters abreast of our initiatives, programs, and updates is a crucial part of our work. We also know that using teaching and teacher education to disrupt injustice is complex. Part of our strategy to harness the power of teaching to create a more just society is to translate our ideas about teaching, teacher education, and professional learning into stories that engage and inspire. Explore the latest updates and stories about our programs, partnerships, resources, and more.

February 4, 2025

Why is “learning loss” so trendy?

Everywhere you look these days, you see stories focused on the woeful state of public education in the U.S. From […]

May 17, 2023

What do laboratory classes enable us to see about using the power of teaching to create a more just society?

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

What are laboratory classes anyway?

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

Meet the instructors for 2023 Content Methods Laboratory Classes

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

2023 Elementary Mathematics Laboratory to be held in Detroit, MI

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

January 1, 2022

Practice Makes Progress

In this feature story in the centennial issue of Michigan Education Magazine, TeachingWorks team members reflected on our collective work […]

May 3, 2021

Here’s how these teacher educators are building a community of practice to transform their teacher preparation program

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

As we breathe with relief, we cannot rest

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.

March 31, 2021

We definitively denounce Ron Weiser for his violent and misogynistic remarks

His horrible and horrifying language reproduces broader societal and historical patterns of speech that perpetuate and incite violence and hate against women, especially women of color.