Designing Schools for Meaningful Professional Learning: A Guidebook for Educators

Empower your teachers as partners in professional learning­―and see student achievement soar!

Are you ready for a professional learning program that makes a lasting difference in the quality of teaching within your school or district?

Janice Bradley, a highly-respected educator shows how to promote your faculty’s professional growth and accountability through job-embedded learning. This breakthrough book enables education leaders to

• Work collaboratively with faculty to develop and implement a five-part plan for professional learning designed to meet your school’s unique needs 
• Connect professional learning with practices that have the greatest positive effect in the classroom
• Link professional development to teacher evaluation in a manner that builds trust
• Learn best practices from schools that implemented Bradley’s methodology, and benefit from user-friendly strategies and tools

Say goodbye to top-down programming that’s quickly forgotten, and discover an approach that empowers and inspires your faculty at all levels of experience. 

"It′s hard to imagine a simple, five-step process that could integrate all of Learning Forward′s seven professional learning standards, yet that is exactly what Janice Bradley has done in the book, Designing Schools for Meaningful Professional Learning."

―Patricia Roy, Senior Consultant

Learning Forward Center for Results

"I’ve never experienced professional learning such as this! Taking part in collaborative learning with my team gave me the opportunity to explore questions and curiosities about my students that have been buried in years of district-driven professional development. Now my colleagues and I research together in order to create a learning environment every child deserves."

―Kathryn Million, First-Grade Dual Language Teacher

Las Cruces, NM

Janice Bradley, Ph.D., is a lifelong educator whose passion is to learn alongside educators in order to create equitable school cultures for powerful learning. She specializes in designing and facilitating authentic, relevant professional learning experiences for change and improvement in practice with leaders at all levels of a school system, including leadership teams, principals, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, and mathematics teachers.

Dr. Bradley’s classroom experience includes teaching at all elementary grade levels with students from diverse backgrounds. Her district level experience was obtained through serving as a K-12 Mathematics Specialist, and coordinating professional learning experiences for mathematics teachers and leaders.

At the university level, she has served as adjunct professor at three universities, and currently is a faculty member at New Mexico State University. Her research interests include creating school climates for trust and collaboration, professional learning communities, systemic change, teacher leadership, and elementary mathematics.

At the national level, she has facilitated learning for systemic change with educators in six states, shared learning through sessions at numerous conferences, and served as a consultant for educators who desire to see change through integrating research into practice. She holds a doctorate in mathematics education from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation was on mathematics coaching.