Peers continually challenge and support one another. Learners document their learning processes and outcomes. Sharing of learning is encouraged and supported. Plans to try out new ideas are deliberate and made explicit. Struggles are not viewed as failure, but are respected as contributions to the knowledge base.
Workshops are the primary professional development method.
Workshops continue to play a key role in professional development but become just one learning resource among many. However, practitioners are counted among the experts and achieve greater prominence as workshop leaders . Content experts from outside the system are still welcome and encouraged. It is rarely known if the training even impacted practice in any way. Learning plans, developed by participants, result in much richer evaluation data about the professional development experience .