NSDC Executive Director Stephanie Hirsh and Deputy Executive Director Joellen Killion outline eight principles to guide professional learning during the next era. If professional development decision makers adopt these principles, the authors believe they will contribute to ensuring that professional learning will improve leading, teaching, and learning. This book helps readers understand what qualifies as effective professional learning, enables them to believe that this kind of professional learning is possible to achieve, and provides a blueprint that enables thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners to join together in this crucial work.

The Learning Educator: A New Era for Professional Learning by Stephanie Hirsh (2007-05-03)

Education & Teaching

Joellen Killion

Stephanie Hirsh

Schools & Teaching

Learning Educator

An insightful treatment of the power of learner-focused feedback to improve professional learning and practice.

Feedback Process Transforming Feedback for Professional Learning

Learning Forward

Taking the Lead outlines 10 practical and powerful roles for school-based coaches responsible for helping teachers increase their capacity to serve all students. The second edition is a rich update to Killion and Harrison's essential resource and includes dozens of online tools that support deep exploration and implementation of the concepts covered in the book. Features include: Updated review of the evidence on the effects of coaching; Deep discussions about the 10 roles of coaches; Real-world vignettes based on authentic experiences of coaches; Focus on the culture of coaching and the power of team coaching; Chapter about troubleshooting challenges to coaching; and Guidance for school- and system leaders who create the conditions supporting coaches and coaching programs. With new content ranging from the strategic to the specific, this practical resource guides school-based coaches and leaders in the practice of student-focused coaching. System leaders may use Taking the Lead as they advocate the design of a coaching program focused on team, school, and district learning goals. School-based coaches and teacher leaders will find advice for coaching a reluctant colleague, drawing up an effective working agreement, reflecting on their own practice, or troubleshooting a challenge.

Taking the Lead: New roles for Teachers and School-Based Coaches, 2nd Edition

Cindy Harrison

The Feedback Process

This book brushes aside the magic and mystery to reveal how coaching can make a difference. Each chapter describes an element of what research and the authors' firsthand experiences know it takes to make coaching effective. The book covers: Characteristics that distinguish effective coaching programs; Attributes that affect teaching practices, student achievement, and school culture; Practices that lead to results for teachers and students; Responsibilities of coaches; Strategies for individual coaches, principals, and school systems to build a stronger coaching program; and more.Every chapter is accompanied by tools, including extended readings, resources to use with teachers, strategies for accomplishing the work, and real-life examples to build on.

Coaching Matters

Chris Bryan

Heather Clifton

In Elevate School-Based Professional Learning, authors Joellen Killion, William A. Sommers, and Ann Delehant present a model for continuous professional learning that occurs in school staffs everyday work context. This school-based professional learning allows educators to efficiently learn and then immediately apply their refined practices in the classroom. Research-based strategies help preK-12 educators collaboratively study and solve issues arising from their school's unique context and circumstances. By learning together in their school, teachers, staff, and leaders can discover what does and does not work and foster improved student results. Readers Will: Discover what school-based professional learning is and how they can implement it through a collaborative effort, Learn how to collect and analyze data to determine their school's needs and to help focus their school-based professional learning, Understand how to reach learning goals by developing essential knowledge, attitudes, skills, aspirations, and behaviors, Benefit from multiple tools and strategies for implementing, assessing, maintaining, growing, and reflecting on school-based professional learning, Gain insight into personal and systemwide benefits of school-based professional learning and how to meet and move beyond the challenges of implementing this model

Elevate School-Based Professional Learning (Implement school-based PD based on authors’ research and real experiences with strategies that work)

William A. Sommers

Ann Delehant

Solution Tree Press

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