Merrilou Harrison

Consultant, State of Washington and Success at the Core Fellow Merrilou Harrison is an educator who has taught all grade levels and been an administrator at all levels. She helps schools and districts become more successful through coaching and leading professional development. Her current responsibilities include being a Leadership Framework Specialist and a Student and Staff Success Coach for the state of Washington. Her consulting work takes her throughout the country working with schools on becoming effective and efficient Professional Learning Communities. Within her work, she often turns to Success at the Core Leadership and Teacher Development modules to help leaders become stronger Instructional Leaders. Merrilou is also a Success at the Core Fellow.

Posts by Merrilou Harrison:

• What Do Students, Teachers and Administrators Need to Learn?

  
  February 25 2013 | AWSP | Common Formative Assessment | effective teaching | instructional expertise | Leadership Teams and Quality Instruction | Professional Learning Communities | quality instruction | teacher development | using data effectively

  Professional Learning Communities often ask four essential questions to guide their work:

  1. What do the students need to learn?
  2. How will we know when they have learned it?
  3. What will we do when they haven’t learned it?
  4. What will we do when they already know it?
    “Learning,” in this case, refers both to knowing a …
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• Unpacking the Common Core

  
  October 11 2012 | common core standards | implementing new programs | leadership | teacher development

  As students and teachers get back in to the school routine, for many there is a significant change. Rather than learning a new curriculum, many educators are grappling with a new set of academic standards. Yes, we have been in a standards-based system in the United State for the last 15 …

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