The K-1st dual language vertical team from Tombaugh Elementary School in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is the winner of the 2014 Shirley Hord Learning Team Award, sponsored by Learning Forward and Corwin. The award, which honors Shirley Hord’s research on learning communities, is given annually to a team of teachers that demonstrates Learning Forward’s definition of professional learning in action. The winning team focused its collaborative work on developing and implementing a professional learning design model to improve mathematics instruction for English language learners. The team will be recognized at Learning Forward’s 2014 Annual Conference in Nashville. “It is very easy to recognize the energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to students that the Tombaugh learning team demonstrates,” said Learning Forward Scholar Laureate Shirley Hord. “They are