Metro Center's Metro Learning Communities (MLC) has launched new teacher resources, Protocols in the Classroom: Tools to Help Students Read, Write, Think and Collaborate authored by two MLC facilitators David Allen and Terra Lynch and Data and Teaching: Moving Beyond Magical Thinking to Effective Practice by Joseph McDonald, Nora Isacoff and Dana Karin. Our MLC Staff describes this new resources as needed to help expand teacher's professional learning to include student's learning. This is done by providing teachers with the tools needed to use discussion protocols to support students in developing skills and habits as readers, writers, critical thinkers, and active participants in the classroom.