Powerful Professional Development
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"I love, love, love this book! This smorgasbord of professional development strategies maximizes time and on-site expertise. From the perspective of educators hungry for cost-effective, proven ways to promote ongoing, job-embedded professional learning, this is an à la carte menu for building healthy professional development 'meals' based on specific needs and available resources."
—Gail Ritchie, Instructional Coach
Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
"This book offers a menu of practical, integrated, research-based tools and processes that engage and empower teachers and administrators in co-constructing a powerful form of job-embedded professional development that is relevant, focused, and organic, and allows schools to transform themselves into a self-sustaining learning organization."
—Pedro R. Bermúdez, Professional Development Support
Ready Schools Miami, FL
Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!
This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:
- Book study and lesson study
- Action research and professional learning communities
- Coaching and co-teaching
- Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more
Contents
Foreword, by Stephanie Hirsh
Foreword, by Stephanie Hirsh
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Part I. What Is Powerful Job-Embedded Profressional Development, and How Can You Make It Happen?
- 1. Cultivating Professional Development From Inside the Four Walls of Your School
- So What Is Job-Embedded Professional Development?
- What Are the Building Blocks for Job-Embedded Professional Development?
- An Example: What Did Mrs. Oublier Teach Us About Building Professional Knowledge That Facilitates Change?
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
- 2. Creating Space and Reconceptualizing Roles for Job-Embedded PD: Building the Back Porch
- What Exactly Is a School's Back Porch?
- Who Is on the Back Porch? Roles and Responsibilities
- What Is a Teacher Leader?
- What Is the Role of the Principal?
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
- 3. Thinking Outside the Clock and Inside the Budget: How to Find Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
- Finding Time
- Finding Money
- How to Use Time and Money Creatively
- An Example: Finding Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
Part II. The Professional Development Toolbox: Strategies to Actualize Powerful Professional Development
- 4. Book Studies, Webinars, Podcasts, and Online Video Libraries
- Definition: Book Study
- Definitions: Webinar, Podcasts, and Online Video Library
- Illustration: From Book Study to Webinar and Back Again
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 5. Research-in-Action and Coteaching
- Definition: Research-in-Action
- Illustration: Research-in Action
- Definition: Coteaching
- Illustration: Coteaching?Lead and Support
- Illustration: Coteaching?Parallel Teaching
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 6. Conversation Tools: Protocols, Open Space Technology, and the Knowledge Cafe
- Definition: Conversation Tools
- Illustration: Conversation Tools
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 7. Lesson Study
- Definition: Lesson Study
- Illustration: Lesson Study
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 8. Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- Definition: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- Illustration: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 9. Coaching Models: Peer, Culturally Responsive, and Content Focused
- Definition: Coaching
- Illustration: Peer Coaching
- Illustration: Culturally Responsive Coaching
- Illustration: Content-Focused Coaching
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 10. Professional Learning Communities
- Definition: Professional Learning Community
- Illustration: Inquiry-Oriented PLC
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
Part III. Using Your Toolbox: Tips for Developing a Successful Job-Embedded, Professional Development Program
- 11. Making the Match: Aligning Data and the Right Tools With Your Particular Needs
- What Factors Should I Consider in the Matchmaking Process?
- Illustration: Sixth-Grade Language Arts Teacher Keisha Wagner
- What Is a Theory of Change, Why Do You Need One, and How Do You Get One?
- Illustration: Elementary School Teacher Leader Kevin Smith
- Tips for Making the Perfect Match for Professional Learning
- Concluding Thoughts
- 12. Effective Professional Development Within Your School Walls: Lessons Learned
- Ten Lessons for Making Job-Embedded Professional Development a Success at Your School
- Parting Comments
References and Additional Reading
References and Additional Reading
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"I love, love, love this book! This smorgasbord of professional development strategies maximizes time and on-site expertise. From the perspective of educators hungry for cost-effective, proven ways to promote ongoing, job-embedded professional learning, this is an à la carte menu for building healthy professional development 'meals' based on specific needs and available resources."
—Gail Ritchie, Instructional Coach
Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
"This book offers a menu of practical, integrated, research-based tools and processes that engage and empower teachers and administrators in co-constructing a powerful form of job-embedded professional development that is relevant, focused, and organic, and allows schools to transform themselves into a self-sustaining learning organization."
—Pedro R. Bermúdez, Professional Development Support
Ready Schools Miami, FL
Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!
This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:
- Book study and lesson study
- Action research and professional learning communities
- Coaching and co-teaching
- Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more
Contents
Foreword, by Stephanie Hirsh
Foreword, by Stephanie Hirsh
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Part I. What Is Powerful Job-Embedded Profressional Development, and How Can You Make It Happen?
- 1. Cultivating Professional Development From Inside the Four Walls of Your School
- So What Is Job-Embedded Professional Development?
- What Are the Building Blocks for Job-Embedded Professional Development?
- An Example: What Did Mrs. Oublier Teach Us About Building Professional Knowledge That Facilitates Change?
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
- 2. Creating Space and Reconceptualizing Roles for Job-Embedded PD: Building the Back Porch
- What Exactly Is a School's Back Porch?
- Who Is on the Back Porch? Roles and Responsibilities
- What Is a Teacher Leader?
- What Is the Role of the Principal?
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
- 3. Thinking Outside the Clock and Inside the Budget: How to Find Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
- Finding Time
- Finding Money
- How to Use Time and Money Creatively
- An Example: Finding Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
Part II. The Professional Development Toolbox: Strategies to Actualize Powerful Professional Development
- 4. Book Studies, Webinars, Podcasts, and Online Video Libraries
- Definition: Book Study
- Definitions: Webinar, Podcasts, and Online Video Library
- Illustration: From Book Study to Webinar and Back Again
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 5. Research-in-Action and Coteaching
- Definition: Research-in-Action
- Illustration: Research-in Action
- Definition: Coteaching
- Illustration: Coteaching?Lead and Support
- Illustration: Coteaching?Parallel Teaching
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 6. Conversation Tools: Protocols, Open Space Technology, and the Knowledge Cafe
- Definition: Conversation Tools
- Illustration: Conversation Tools
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 7. Lesson Study
- Definition: Lesson Study
- Illustration: Lesson Study
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 8. Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- Definition: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- Illustration: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 9. Coaching Models: Peer, Culturally Responsive, and Content Focused
- Definition: Coaching
- Illustration: Peer Coaching
- Illustration: Culturally Responsive Coaching
- Illustration: Content-Focused Coaching
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 10. Professional Learning Communities
- Definition: Professional Learning Community
- Illustration: Inquiry-Oriented PLC
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
Part III. Using Your Toolbox: Tips for Developing a Successful Job-Embedded, Professional Development Program
- 11. Making the Match: Aligning Data and the Right Tools With Your Particular Needs
- What Factors Should I Consider in the Matchmaking Process?
- Illustration: Sixth-Grade Language Arts Teacher Keisha Wagner
- What Is a Theory of Change, Why Do You Need One, and How Do You Get One?
- Illustration: Elementary School Teacher Leader Kevin Smith
- Tips for Making the Perfect Match for Professional Learning
- Concluding Thoughts
- 12. Effective Professional Development Within Your School Walls: Lessons Learned
- Ten Lessons for Making Job-Embedded Professional Development a Success at Your School
- Parting Comments
References and Additional Reading
References and Additional Reading
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Powerful Professional Development
Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School
February 2010 | 200 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/01/2025 | 9781412979757 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/01/2025 | 9781452271279 | $37.00 |
"I love, love, love this book! This smorgasbord of professional development strategies maximizes time and on-site expertise. From the perspective of educators hungry for cost-effective, proven ways to promote ongoing, job-embedded professional learning, this is an à la carte menu for building healthy professional development 'meals' based on specific needs and available resources."
—Gail Ritchie, Instructional Coach
Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
"This book offers a menu of practical, integrated, research-based tools and processes that engage and empower teachers and administrators in co-constructing a powerful form of job-embedded professional development that is relevant, focused, and organic, and allows schools to transform themselves into a self-sustaining learning organization."
—Pedro R. Bermúdez, Professional Development Support
Ready Schools Miami, FL
Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!
This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:
- Book study and lesson study
- Action research and professional learning communities
- Coaching and co-teaching
- Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword, by Stephanie Hirsh
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Part I. What Is Powerful Job-Embedded Profressional Development, and How Can You Make It Happen?
- 1. Cultivating Professional Development From Inside the Four Walls of Your School
- So What Is Job-Embedded Professional Development?
- What Are the Building Blocks for Job-Embedded Professional Development?
- An Example: What Did Mrs. Oublier Teach Us About Building Professional Knowledge That Facilitates Change?
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
- 2. Creating Space and Reconceptualizing Roles for Job-Embedded PD: Building the Back Porch
- What Exactly Is a School's Back Porch?
- Who Is on the Back Porch? Roles and Responsibilities
- What Is a Teacher Leader?
- What Is the Role of the Principal?
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
- 3. Thinking Outside the Clock and Inside the Budget: How to Find Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
- Finding Time
- Finding Money
- How to Use Time and Money Creatively
- An Example: Finding Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
- Concluding Thoughts
- Additional Resources
- Part II. The Professional Development Toolbox: Strategies to Actualize Powerful Professional Development
- 4. Book Studies, Webinars, Podcasts, and Online Video Libraries
- Definition: Book Study
- Definitions: Webinar, Podcasts, and Online Video Library
- Illustration: From Book Study to Webinar and Back Again
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 5. Research-in-Action and Coteaching
- Definition: Research-in-Action
- Illustration: Research-in Action
- Definition: Coteaching
- Illustration: Coteaching?Lead and Support
- Illustration: Coteaching?Parallel Teaching
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 6. Conversation Tools: Protocols, Open Space Technology, and the Knowledge Cafe
- Definition: Conversation Tools
- Illustration: Conversation Tools
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 7. Lesson Study
- Definition: Lesson Study
- Illustration: Lesson Study
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 8. Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- Definition: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- Illustration: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 9. Coaching Models: Peer, Culturally Responsive, and Content Focused
- Definition: Coaching
- Illustration: Peer Coaching
- Illustration: Culturally Responsive Coaching
- Illustration: Content-Focused Coaching
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- 10. Professional Learning Communities
- Definition: Professional Learning Community
- Illustration: Inquiry-Oriented PLC
- What Have We Learned?
- Some Things to Think About
- Additional Resources
- Part III. Using Your Toolbox: Tips for Developing a Successful Job-Embedded, Professional Development Program
- 11. Making the Match: Aligning Data and the Right Tools With Your Particular Needs
- What Factors Should I Consider in the Matchmaking Process?
- Illustration: Sixth-Grade Language Arts Teacher Keisha Wagner
- What Is a Theory of Change, Why Do You Need One, and How Do You Get One?
- Illustration: Elementary School Teacher Leader Kevin Smith
- Tips for Making the Perfect Match for Professional Learning
- Concluding Thoughts
- 12. Effective Professional Development Within Your School Walls: Lessons Learned
- Ten Lessons for Making Job-Embedded Professional Development a Success at Your School
- Parting Comments
- References and Additional Reading
- Index