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

Joellen Killion; William A. Sommers; Ann Delehant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1954631391 ISBN 13: 9781954631397

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2023

Synopsis

Collaborative staff development in education is the vehicle to student success, and research shows that the closer professional learning is to daily practice, the more meaningful and impactful it will be. Written with deep respect for the work educators do in their classrooms each day, this practical resource illustrates the importance of school-based professional learning and offers guidance on how to implement it.

This book provides essential knowledge and tools so that teachers, teacher leaders, staff development coordinators, instructional coaches, principals, and district leaders can:

• Collaboratively study and solve issues unique to their schools
• Conduct professional learning and skill application in tandem
• Access collaborative learning tools and techniques for implementing, assessing, maintaining, growing, and reflecting on school-based professional learning
• Learn how to collect and analyze data to determine the focus of their school-based professional learning
• Understand how to reach learning goals by developing essential knowledge, attitudes, skills, aspirations, and behaviors
• Gain insight into the personal and systemwide benefits of school-based professional learning and how to meet and move beyond the challenges of implementing this model

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Discovering Why School-Based Professional Learning Works
Chapter 2: Sharing Responsibility for School-Based Professional Learning
Chapter 3: Analyzing Data to Design School-Based Learning
Chapter 4: Preparing to Design School-Based Professional Learning
Chapter 5: Planning School-Based Professional Learning
Chapter 6: Implementing and Supporting the Plan
Chapter 7: Monitoring and Measuring
Chapter 8: Reporting and Celebrating Success
Chapter 9: Reflecting on the Work
Chapter 10: Facing Challenges
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author

Joellen Killion is a leadership and learning consultant residing in Lakeway, Texas. She serves as the senior advisor to and a senior consultant for Learning Forward. Joellen champions educator learning as the primary pathway to student success. Joellen leads, facilitates, and contributes to initiatives related to examining the link between professional learning and student learning. She has over forty years of experience in planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating professional learning in schools; school systems; state, ministry, and regional education agencies; international schools; and professional associations.
Joellen is a member of Learning Forward, the American Educational Research Association, Phi Delta Kappa, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. She has presented at many international and U.S.-based education conferences and has presented at thirty-seven consecutive Learning Forward conferences on her work and research in curriculum, professional learning, coaching, and leadership. She received merit recognition for her work in Adams 12 Five Star Schools and at the National Staff Development Council/Learning Forward. She initiated Learning Forward’s Coaches Academy and led the development, research, and implementation of the Standards for Professional Learning and the design and implementation of comprehensive professional learning systems for the Common Core curriculum.

William A. Sommers, PhD, of Austin, Texas, continues to be a learner, teacher, principal, author, leadership coach, and consultant. Bill has come out of retirement multiple times to put theory into practice as a principal in high schools and middle schools. He has worked at inner-city schools as well as in high-socioeconomic-status suburban districts. Bill has been a consultant for cognitive coaching, adaptive schools, brain research, poverty, habits of mind, conflict management, and classroom management strategies and is a Marshall Goldsmith–certified Stakeholder Centered Coach.

Ann Delehant is the owner of Delehant and Associates, an education consulting practice. She is an experienced facilitator, learning leader, and agent of systemwide change. Ann’s work focuses on developing, supporting, and coaching leaders at all levels; building collaborative cultures; and facilitating systems change.
Ann is a senior consultant for Learning Forward. For nearly thirty years, she was a member of The Dolan Team, a labor-management consulting firm that specialized in deep systemic change. She also served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Educational Leadership and held many positions at the Rochester City School District, including coordinator of the Cooperation: University, Business, and Education (CUBE) Programs, grant writer, and director of staff development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1954631391
• ISBN 13: 9781954631397
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 248