Welcome to Notes & Reflections, our newsletter for professional development providers. Notes & Reflections is a free electronic newsletter that offers practical information—ideas, strategies, tools, and resources—about topics of special interest to professional developers who are working to improve school performance. Notes & Reflections is published two or three times a year.

Today, professional development services to schools are provided by variety of people: teacher leaders; principals; and district, regional, and state education staff—to name just a few. If you are one of these providers, Notes & Reflections will help you build your capacity to plan and implement powerful professional development.

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• Facilitating School Improvement With Data
  Notes & Reflections, Issue 8 (Winter 2005)

Notes From the Field is a new Notes & Reflections feature that allows its readers an opportunity to share their successful professional development methods, tips, and tools with other readers.