The Journal of the Alabama Best Practices Center

The Working Toward Excellence (WTE) journal is an annual publication of the Alabama Best Practices Center. Each Journal is focused intensely on a specific topic related to teaching and learning. Subscriptions to the WTE Journal are free.

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Past Issues of WTE

• Alabama Tackles Adolescent Literacy (527 Kb)
• Alabama’s 21st Century Schools Are Blazing Trails Through Cyberspace (449 Kb)
• Three Schools That Succeed By Doing Whatever It Takes (364 Kb)
• Kinterbish Junior High: A Story of School Transformation in Rural Alabama
• Educating the Digital Generation (343 Kb)
• Doing Whatever It Takes (259 Kb)
• Can Alabama Lead the U.S. In Reading Achievement? (249 Kb)
  
  • Professional Development Activity #1
  • Professional Development Activity #2
• Today's Effective Schools Have High-Capacity Leadership (510Kb)
• No Child Left Behind, Year Two (240Kb)
  • Professional Development Activity #3
• Powerful Conversations Can Transform Teacher Learning (204Kb)
• Closing the Achievement Gap (267K)
  • Professional Development Activity #4
• No Child Left Behind (1.6M)
• Data-Driven Schools (1.8M)
• High Quality Staff Development (1.8 M)
• New Teacher Induction, Mentoring, and Support (1.3 M)
• Finding Time (1.8 M)
• Teacher Development (1.3 M)
• Principal Leadership (1.2 M)