Leading Powerful Professional Learning
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Effective facilitation is complex
What is central to leading powerful and effective facilitation in professional learning? You. Gone are the one-size-fits-all answers—instead, you’ll draw from your own knowledge and expertise to lead your PLC in actively solving complex problems that are unique to your context.
For professional learning to have an improvement impact for both teachers and students, it needs to be more than a single event. Truly successful professional learning is sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused—generating multifaceted solutions to real-life, real-time issues rather than focusing on one piece of the practice puzzle at a time.
This book, based on the results of a five-year research study, provides:
• An innovative approach to the design and delivery of professional learning grounded in principles of adaptive expertise
• Easy-to-use one-page summaries of “Deliberate Acts of Facilitation”
• Guidance that’s fully congruent with Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The current educational landscape demands a new kind of leadership. This book gives you the tools you need to apply the principles of adaptive expertise to your leadership and facilitation—enabling you to draw on your own deep knowledge to address the complex challenges you and your teachers face every day.
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Roots
- Root #1: Adopting an Evaluative Inquiry Stance
- Root #2: Valuing and Using Deep Conceptual Knowledge
- Root #3: Being Agentic
- Root #4: Being Aware of Cultural Positioning
- Root #5: Being Metacognitive
- Root #6: Bringing a Systemic Focus
Chapter 2: The Trunk
- Exercise #1: Trunk: Responsiveness through Relationships with a Generative Improvement Orientation
Chapter 3: Branches and Leaves
- Branch 1: Purpose and Focus
- DAF #1: Clarifying Purpose
- DAF #2: Focusing on Valued Student Outcomes
- DAF #3: Building Coherence
- DAF #4: Creating Commitment and Taking Action
- Branch 2: Knowledge and Inquiry
- DAF #5: Deepening Knowledge
- DAF #6: Using Evidence Critically
- DAF #7: Using Focused and Deep Collaborative Inquiry
- Branch 3: Effective Learning Processes
- DAF #8: Surfacing and Engaging Theories and Beliefs
- DAF #9: Navigating Perceptions of Risk
- DAF #10: Developing Self-Regulation
- DAF #11: Providing Appropriate Support and Challenge
- DAF #12: Co-constructing Learning
Chapter 4: Facilitating Improvement
- Facilitating Improvement and Adaptive Expertise
- How Does Adaptive Expertise Fit With Other Forms of Expertise?
- Developing Your Own Adaptive Expertise
- Developing Adaptive Expertise in Others
- Putting It All Together
Research Appendix
Research Appendix
References
References
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/LeadingPowerfulPLDescription
Effective facilitation is complex
What is central to leading powerful and effective facilitation in professional learning? You. Gone are the one-size-fits-all answers—instead, you’ll draw from your own knowledge and expertise to lead your PLC in actively solving complex problems that are unique to your context.
For professional learning to have an improvement impact for both teachers and students, it needs to be more than a single event. Truly successful professional learning is sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused—generating multifaceted solutions to real-life, real-time issues rather than focusing on one piece of the practice puzzle at a time.
This book, based on the results of a five-year research study, provides:
• An innovative approach to the design and delivery of professional learning grounded in principles of adaptive expertise
• Easy-to-use one-page summaries of “Deliberate Acts of Facilitation”
• Guidance that’s fully congruent with Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The current educational landscape demands a new kind of leadership. This book gives you the tools you need to apply the principles of adaptive expertise to your leadership and facilitation—enabling you to draw on your own deep knowledge to address the complex challenges you and your teachers face every day.
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Roots
- Root #1: Adopting an Evaluative Inquiry Stance
- Root #2: Valuing and Using Deep Conceptual Knowledge
- Root #3: Being Agentic
- Root #4: Being Aware of Cultural Positioning
- Root #5: Being Metacognitive
- Root #6: Bringing a Systemic Focus
Chapter 2: The Trunk
- Exercise #1: Trunk: Responsiveness through Relationships with a Generative Improvement Orientation
Chapter 3: Branches and Leaves
- Branch 1: Purpose and Focus
- DAF #1: Clarifying Purpose
- DAF #2: Focusing on Valued Student Outcomes
- DAF #3: Building Coherence
- DAF #4: Creating Commitment and Taking Action
- Branch 2: Knowledge and Inquiry
- DAF #5: Deepening Knowledge
- DAF #6: Using Evidence Critically
- DAF #7: Using Focused and Deep Collaborative Inquiry
- Branch 3: Effective Learning Processes
- DAF #8: Surfacing and Engaging Theories and Beliefs
- DAF #9: Navigating Perceptions of Risk
- DAF #10: Developing Self-Regulation
- DAF #11: Providing Appropriate Support and Challenge
- DAF #12: Co-constructing Learning
Chapter 4: Facilitating Improvement
- Facilitating Improvement and Adaptive Expertise
- How Does Adaptive Expertise Fit With Other Forms of Expertise?
- Developing Your Own Adaptive Expertise
- Developing Adaptive Expertise in Others
- Putting It All Together
Research Appendix
Research Appendix
References
References
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/LeadingPowerfulPLReviews
Leading Powerful Professional Learning
Responding to Complexity With Adaptive Expertise
September 2019 | 160 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spiral | 01/02/2026 | 9781544361451 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781544386812 | $37.00 |
Effective facilitation is complex
What is central to leading powerful and effective facilitation in professional learning? You. Gone are the one-size-fits-all answers—instead, you’ll draw from your own knowledge and expertise to lead your PLC in actively solving complex problems that are unique to your context.
For professional learning to have an improvement impact for both teachers and students, it needs to be more than a single event. Truly successful professional learning is sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused—generating multifaceted solutions to real-life, real-time issues rather than focusing on one piece of the practice puzzle at a time.
This book, based on the results of a five-year research study, provides:
• An innovative approach to the design and delivery of professional learning grounded in principles of adaptive expertise
• Easy-to-use one-page summaries of “Deliberate Acts of Facilitation”
• Guidance that’s fully congruent with Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The current educational landscape demands a new kind of leadership. This book gives you the tools you need to apply the principles of adaptive expertise to your leadership and facilitation—enabling you to draw on your own deep knowledge to address the complex challenges you and your teachers face every day.
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Roots
- Root #1: Adopting an Evaluative Inquiry Stance
- Root #2: Valuing and Using Deep Conceptual Knowledge
- Root #3: Being Agentic
- Root #4: Being Aware of Cultural Positioning
- Root #5: Being Metacognitive
- Root #6: Bringing a Systemic Focus
- Chapter 2: The Trunk
- Exercise #1: Trunk: Responsiveness through Relationships with a Generative Improvement Orientation
- Chapter 3: Branches and Leaves
- Branch 1: Purpose and Focus
- DAF #1: Clarifying Purpose
- DAF #2: Focusing on Valued Student Outcomes
- DAF #3: Building Coherence
- DAF #4: Creating Commitment and Taking Action
- Branch 2: Knowledge and Inquiry
- DAF #5: Deepening Knowledge
- DAF #6: Using Evidence Critically
- DAF #7: Using Focused and Deep Collaborative Inquiry
- Branch 3: Effective Learning Processes
- DAF #8: Surfacing and Engaging Theories and Beliefs
- DAF #9: Navigating Perceptions of Risk
- DAF #10: Developing Self-Regulation
- DAF #11: Providing Appropriate Support and Challenge
- DAF #12: Co-constructing Learning
- Chapter 4: Facilitating Improvement
- Facilitating Improvement and Adaptive Expertise
- How Does Adaptive Expertise Fit With Other Forms of Expertise?
- Developing Your Own Adaptive Expertise
- Developing Adaptive Expertise in Others
- Putting It All Together
- Research Appendix
- References