With the development and implementation of Moline/Coal Valley School District’s Strategic Plan, Continuous Improvement and Cooperative Learning have become a point of emphasis throughout the school district.

Continuous Improvement ensures that people, processes, and procedures needed to sustain improvement in the district are in place now and in the future. The idea of Continuous Improvement is an exciting process. What you see, hear and feel as you enter the classrooms is changing.  

Cooperative Learning promotes the idea that teamwork in the classroom is preparation for our students for the “real world,” which is increasingly characterized by working cooperatively. Isolated, independent work is giving way to a networked and interdependent world. Success in our classrooms is not only the acquisition of skills, but also the ability to work with, and learn from, others. The use of Cooperative Learning Structures helps meet these goals.

To date, more than 100 of our staff members have received training in the area of Continuous Improvement, and more than 200 staff members are now using Cooperative Learning Structures in their classrooms.  Additional training sessions are scheduled this summer to introduce or expand skills in these areas. District and school level processes are in place to sustain these initiatives over time.

Teachers worked on interactive activities at the training session
held at the Moline Public Library.

A second group of teachers went through the training at Wilson Middle School.