A compilation of articles about time published in NSDC's newsletters and JSD in the last decade. The most comprehensive collection of articles on this topic you will find anywhere. Includes suggestions about how to use the articles to guide discussion about time in your school and district.

Finding Time for Professional Learning

Learning Forward

Change, Lead, Succeed

Linda Munger

Valerie Von Frank

Every student should have the opportunity to attend a great school filled with great teachers. This book explores the idea that, for this to happen, school districts must become learning systems. In a learning system, every educator in the district focuses intently on learning - at whatever level they serve. Those educators share responsibility for student and adult learning, dedicate themselves to continuous improvement, use data to drive decisions, and monitor and adjust their practices based on feedback. This book is based on Learning Forward's definition of professional learning and Standards for Professional Learning, which together offer district leaders a framework to guide daily decisions that promote continuous improvement. The book outlines the knowledge, skills, attitudes, dispositions, and behaviors district leaders need to lead, facilitate, and coach school leaders and leadership teams to embed the definition and standards into schools' daily routines. This book builds on the ideas explored in Becoming a Learning School. As with that volume, the chapters in this comprehensive tool kit are supplemented by dozens of additional tools.

Becoming a Learning System

Stephanie Hirsh

Frederick Brown

Kay Psencik

Filled with 24 learning designs, the latest edition of Learning Forward's best-seller helps educators understand the kinds of learning experiences that result in changed practices and better results for students. The book is edited by Lois Brown Easton, with chapters authored by more than 30 of the field's leading experts in adult learning. The broad range of designs allows educators to find the best strategies for their particular needs and circumstances. Fifteen of the 24 designs in this version are new. The others have been updated, many incorporating aspects of technology. Purchase this comprehensive, practical handbook to professional learning designs today. The 384-page book includes a link and password to dozens of exclusive online resources.

POWERFUL DESIGNS F/PROFESS...-W/ACCESS

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

Feedback Process Transforming Feedback for Professional Learning

Joellen Killion

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

This revised edition - based on Learning Forward's definition of professional learning and Standards for Professional Learning, which together offer district leaders a framework to guide daily decisions that promote continuous improvement - includes more intentional focus on the role of curriculum and instructional materials in a learning system. It emphasizes the importance of concentrating school- and team-based professional learning largely on the curriculum that teachers use with students. This focus reflects recent research that recognizes the power of a high-quality curriculum in improving student achievement. The book outlines the knowledge, skills, attitudes, dispositions, and behaviors district leaders need to lead, facilitate, and coach school leaders and leadership teams to embed the definition and standards into schools' daily routines as they integrate high-quality curriculum with professional learning.

Becoming a Learning System: Revised Edition

Becoming a Learning Team, Second Edition, offers teachers step-by-step guidance in using collaborative learning time to solve specific student learning challenges. This book outlines a process for using student data to craft student and educator learning goals leading to learning plans, implementation steps, and progress monitoring. The second edition focuses more explicitly on the role of learning teams in implementing high-quality instructional materials and what that means for student and educator learning goals and agendas.

Becoming a Learning Team, 2nd Edition

Jim Short

The Life Cycle of Leadership: Surviving and Thriving in Today's Schools

Mike Ford

Steven Uebbing

The third revision since 1995, the standards define the essential elements of and conditions for professional learning if improvements in educator effectiveness and student learning are to be realized.As with past versions, the latest standards represent the work of many organizations and associations. In developing this version, Learning Forward and its partners examined the latest research and practice in professional learning to create a template for professional learning. Everyone who funds, plans, facilitates, participates in, and advocates for effective professional learning should engage in reading and discussion of the standards. This work is supported in part by MetLife Foundation.

Standards for Professional Learning

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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