On June 14th 2026, the Research Center on Teacher Training and Learning (CTL) hosted a work conference focusing on ongoing research in the field of  AI and professional learning in education. Ten different Israeli research teams showcased their ongoing work, experts from different disciplines shared insights, and five collaborative work groups were established. Organized with Dr. Beata Beigman Klebanov, Dr. Avivit Arvatz and Saskia de Haan.

Congratulations to Dr Edith Bouton, who wrote an excellent dissertation on new methods for measuring academically productive dialogue in classrooms! This year she presented parts of her dissertation at ICLS 2023 (for which she recieved a best student paper nomination!) , and at the annual School of Ed conference 

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Very proud and happy to announce that PhD students Meirav Levin and Dina Jonas are the new  recipients of the prestigeous, 3-year long Zalman Aran scholarship for outstanding PhD students awarded by the Ministry of Education Chief Scientist's office. Meirav's PhD focuses on teacher learning of and about academically productive clasroom dialogue. Dina's PhD focused on low achieving children in elementary school classroom discussion activities.  

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Teacher burnout and wellbeing during COVID-19: Findings from our recent study reported in Maariv newspaper, 28 April 2021

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