Professional Learning Redefined

An Evidence-Based Guide
Isabel Sawyer
Marisa Ramirez Stukey
Professional Learning Redefined
February 2019 | 152 pages | Corwin
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You’ve just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!

Maybe you’ve run out of fresh ideas to help teachers improve their instructional practice. Maybe you need some help to feel as though your PLCs, coaching and workshops are making an impact. You’ve picked up the right book!

Isabel Sawyer and Marisa Ramirez-Stukey have studied the research on effective professional learning from the past 25 years and distilled these findings into this practical guide for the numerous roles of educators charged with supporting teachers. Readers will learn to construct a multi-year implementation framework and also

  • Facilitative techniques that support powerful professional learning
  • Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level
  • Functional characteristics of a successful facilitator able to combine content and context of learning

Full of protocols, strategies, and case studies, this book dissects the key components of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens.  

Contents

Preface

Preface

About the Authors

About the Authors

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Tool Index

Tool Index

Chapter 1: Learning in the Teaching Profession

Chapter 1: Learning in the Teaching Profession

Chapter 2: Learning within Content

Chapter 2: Learning within Content

Chapter 3: Elements of Learning

Chapter 3: Elements of Learning

Chapter 4: Learning Structures

Chapter 4: Learning Structures

Chapter 5: Lead Learner

Chapter 5: Lead Learner

Chapter 6: Connecting the Learning

Chapter 6: Connecting the Learning

References

References

Appendix

Appendix

Additional materials

Description

You’ve just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!

Maybe you’ve run out of fresh ideas to help teachers improve their instructional practice. Maybe you need some help to feel as though your PLCs, coaching and workshops are making an impact. You’ve picked up the right book!

Isabel Sawyer and Marisa Ramirez-Stukey have studied the research on effective professional learning from the past 25 years and distilled these findings into this practical guide for the numerous roles of educators charged with supporting teachers. Readers will learn to construct a multi-year implementation framework and also

  • Facilitative techniques that support powerful professional learning
  • Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level
  • Functional characteristics of a successful facilitator able to combine content and context of learning

Full of protocols, strategies, and case studies, this book dissects the key components of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens.  

Contents

Preface

Preface

About the Authors

About the Authors

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Tool Index

Tool Index

Chapter 1: Learning in the Teaching Profession

Chapter 1: Learning in the Teaching Profession

Chapter 2: Learning within Content

Chapter 2: Learning within Content

Chapter 3: Elements of Learning

Chapter 3: Elements of Learning

Chapter 4: Learning Structures

Chapter 4: Learning Structures

Chapter 5: Lead Learner

Chapter 5: Lead Learner

Chapter 6: Connecting the Learning

Chapter 6: Connecting the Learning

References

References

Appendix

Appendix

Additional materials

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An Evidence-Based Guide

Isabel Sawyer , Marisa Ramirez Stukey
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February 2019 | 152 pages | Corwin

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You’ve just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!

Maybe you’ve run out of fresh ideas to help teachers improve their instructional practice. Maybe you need some help to feel as though your PLCs, coaching and workshops are making an impact. You’ve picked up the right book!

Isabel Sawyer and Marisa Ramirez-Stukey have studied the research on effective professional learning from the past 25 years and distilled these findings into this practical guide for the numerous roles of educators charged with supporting teachers. Readers will learn to construct a multi-year implementation framework and also

  • Facilitative techniques that support powerful professional learning
  • Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level
  • Functional characteristics of a successful facilitator able to combine content and context of learning

Full of protocols, strategies, and case studies, this book dissects the key components of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens.  


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • About the Authors
  • Publisher's Acknowledgements
  • Tool Index
  • Chapter 1: Learning in the Teaching Profession
  • Chapter 2: Learning within Content
  • Chapter 3: Elements of Learning
  • Chapter 4: Learning Structures
  • Chapter 5: Lead Learner
  • Chapter 6: Connecting the Learning
  • References
  • Appendix

Recent Product Reviews:

"This book provides a clear and practical understanding and approach to tackling the task of teacher learning at a time when “initiative fatigue” and “PD overload” are part of our everyday conversations. It allows us to pause for a moment, step back and examine our practices through a new lens. Professional Learning Redefined explains the “why” and the “how” of what we do."
Marine Avagyan, Ed.D., Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Saugus Union School District, Saugus Union School District
"In this text, Sawyer and Stukey connect building knowledge, learning, and planning for adult audiences that goes beyond professional learning communities."
Dr. Melissa Nixon, Director of Title I, Guilford County Schools, Guilford County Schools
"In Professional Learning Redefined, the authors have created a book where outcomes are clear, and the steps are realistic and useful. I believe this book meets the need for a book on how to design professional learning."
Ronda J. Mitchell, Ed. D., Assistant Professor, College of Education at University of Illinois at Springfield, College of Education at University of Illinois at Springfield
"Professional Learning Redefined is an easy to use handbook that will help ensure that professional development is meaningful, relevant and connects back to student learning."
Dara Feldman, Educational Consultant, The Heart of Education, LLC, The Heart of Education, LLC
"Teachers have become complacent and bored with regular “trainings” because they don’t solve problems. This book will put that idea away and support learning to those who are in the classroom and who don’t have a process for solving problems. Collaborative learning will holds teachers and administration accountable for all children learning to the best of their ability and removes the “PD from hell” syndrome."
Claudia A. Danna. Adjunct Professor, Sacred Heart University, Sacred Heart University

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