Still Learning: Strengthening Professional and Organizational Capacity

This thoughtful guide offers a framework for creating and sustaining learning organizations where both students and educators can truly thrive.

For years, schools have worked to ensure that students develop their social-emotional learning skills, which research shows can benefit not only students' well-being, but also their academic achievement. Until now, however, developing these skills in adults has not received the same emphasis in schools, despite evidence that they are just as helpful for advancing professional practice. With Still Learning: Strengthening Professional and Organizational Capacity, educator and author Allison Rodman, founder of the Learning Loop, seeks to correct this oversight so that teachers, administrators, and other school leaders can thrive both individually and collectively.

Rodman offers a comprehensive "Framework for Educator Capacity Building" that sequences, defines, and outlines key concepts and strategies in five disciplines: attunement, alignment, perspective, collective efficacy, and organizational learning. In this essential resource, you'll find

* Protocols, checklists, reflection exercises, and myriad other practical tools for supporting educators' social-emotional development and strengthening professional and organizational capacity.
* Data and examples from decades of research into the benefits of and best practices related to capacity building.
* Lessons and insights from real-life educators.
* Recommended resources for further exploration.

You'll also be able to access editable PDF versions of many of the tools and resources within the book to support and enhance your reflection, learning, and action planning.

The evidence is clear: Social-emotional development is a must not just for students, but for educators, organizations, and systems as well. Still Learning has everything you need to ensure that the adults in your school or district implement and sustain healthy practices to benefit themselves, their colleagues, and their students.

Allison Rodman is the Founder and Chief Learning Officer of The Learning Loop, an education consulting organization that provides professional learning services to districts, schools, nonprofits, and businesses worldwide. She is an ASCD Faculty Member and author of the ASCD book Personalized Professional Learning. She has written for Educational Leadership on professional learning, effective teams, and educator wellness as well as for Education Week and Edutopia. She brings experience as a teacher, instructional coach, school leader, director of teaching and learning, director of professional learning, board member, and consultant. In her work, she aims to help adult learners strengthen their professional and organizational capacity and create deliberately developmental organizations.