Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning
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Secure the resources needed to support educator professional growth!
Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning.
In this volume, you will learn creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes:
- An original essay by Karen Hawley Miles and Anna Sommers on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth
- Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources—especially time—for teacher learning
- A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times
Learn how wise management of professional learning resources can help achieve stronger outcomes for your educators and students!
Contents
Introduction to the Series - Stephanie Hirsh
Introduction to the Series - Stephanie Hirsh
The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The Resources Standard
- About the Authors
- 1. Introduction - Karen Hawley Miles & Anna Sommers
- A Comprehensive Framework for Improving Instruction
- A Methodology for Quantifying Professional Growth & Support
- Findings from Professional Growth and Support Spending Analyses
- Opportunities to Shift and Maximize Professional Learning Resources
- Constraints and Challenges
- Ensuring Strong Return on Investment and Financial Sustainability of Professional Growth & Support
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Resources
- Endnotes
- 2. TIME: The Resource a School Can Manage to Create More Effective Instruction - Patricia Roy
- Restructuring Time for Collaborative Learning
- Engage Faculty Members
- Fulfilling the Promise of Collaborative Time
- Final Word
- References
- 3. The Case Study - Valerie Von Frank
- Using This Case Study
- Shifting Resources
- Maintaining PLCS, Late Starts
- Instructional Coaches
- Walk-Throughs and Instructional Rounds
- A New Form of Evaluation
- Salina Intermediate School
- Support Staff for Teachers
- PLCs
- Saturdays
- Additional Learning Time
- Walk-Throughs
- Reducing Professional Learning Not an Option
- References
- Personal Testimonies
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
Secure the resources needed to support educator professional growth!
Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning.
In this volume, you will learn creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes:
- An original essay by Karen Hawley Miles and Anna Sommers on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth
- Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources—especially time—for teacher learning
- A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times
Learn how wise management of professional learning resources can help achieve stronger outcomes for your educators and students!
Contents
Introduction to the Series - Stephanie Hirsh
Introduction to the Series - Stephanie Hirsh
The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The Resources Standard
- About the Authors
- 1. Introduction - Karen Hawley Miles & Anna Sommers
- A Comprehensive Framework for Improving Instruction
- A Methodology for Quantifying Professional Growth & Support
- Findings from Professional Growth and Support Spending Analyses
- Opportunities to Shift and Maximize Professional Learning Resources
- Constraints and Challenges
- Ensuring Strong Return on Investment and Financial Sustainability of Professional Growth & Support
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Resources
- Endnotes
- 2. TIME: The Resource a School Can Manage to Create More Effective Instruction - Patricia Roy
- Restructuring Time for Collaborative Learning
- Engage Faculty Members
- Fulfilling the Promise of Collaborative Time
- Final Word
- References
- 3. The Case Study - Valerie Von Frank
- Using This Case Study
- Shifting Resources
- Maintaining PLCS, Late Starts
- Instructional Coaches
- Walk-Throughs and Instructional Rounds
- A New Form of Evaluation
- Salina Intermediate School
- Support Staff for Teachers
- PLCs
- Saturdays
- Additional Learning Time
- Walk-Throughs
- Reducing Professional Learning Not an Option
- References
- Personal Testimonies
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning
Resources
March 2016 | 136 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781452292076 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781506300849 | $35.00 |
Secure the resources needed to support educator professional growth!
Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning.
In this volume, you will learn creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes:
- An original essay by Karen Hawley Miles and Anna Sommers on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth
- Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources—especially time—for teacher learning
- A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times
Learn how wise management of professional learning resources can help achieve stronger outcomes for your educators and students!
Table Of Contents:
- Introduction to the Series - Stephanie Hirsh
- The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
- The Resources Standard
- About the Authors
- 1. Introduction - Karen Hawley Miles & Anna Sommers
- A Comprehensive Framework for Improving Instruction
- A Methodology for Quantifying Professional Growth & Support
- Findings from Professional Growth and Support Spending Analyses
- Opportunities to Shift and Maximize Professional Learning Resources
- Constraints and Challenges
- Ensuring Strong Return on Investment and Financial Sustainability of Professional Growth & Support
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Resources
- Endnotes
- 2. TIME: The Resource a School Can Manage to Create More Effective Instruction - Patricia Roy
- Restructuring Time for Collaborative Learning
- Engage Faculty Members
- Fulfilling the Promise of Collaborative Time
- Final Word
- References
- 3. The Case Study - Valerie Von Frank
- Using This Case Study
- Shifting Resources
- Maintaining PLCS, Late Starts
- Instructional Coaches
- Walk-Throughs and Instructional Rounds
- A New Form of Evaluation
- Salina Intermediate School
- Support Staff for Teachers
- PLCs
- Saturdays
- Additional Learning Time
- Walk-Throughs
- Reducing Professional Learning Not an Option
- References
- Personal Testimonies
- Index