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A joint publication of Eye On Education and the National Staff Development Council.
This book will serve as the road map to your school’s professional development journey. A comprehensive and authoritative resource you will go to again and again, this book guides principals, directors of professional development, school/district professional development committees, and other leaders in creating an effective professional development program that moves ideas from knowledge to action.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Foreword
1 Getting Ready to Champion Professional Development
2 Evaluating and Assessing Professional Development
3 Framing Professional Development Efforts
4 Learning Communities
5 Focusing on Adult Learning: Releasing the Conditions for Professional Growth
6 Job-Embedded Learning
7 Coaching in the Context of Professional Development
8 Teacher Study Groups, Whole-Faculty Study
Groups, and Book Studies
9 Critical Friends Groups
10 Lesson Study
11 Learning Circles
12 Action Research
13 Portfolios
14 Are We There Yet?
References
Index
From Education Review: A Journal of Book Reviews
Sally Zepeda's Professional Development: What Works offers readers an attractive title, useful organization, and valuable information to assist education leaders to be "warriors of professional development" (p. 299). She suggests that professional development is an endless journey of continuous learning. The author desires that two things be remembered. The first is that professional development ought not to be viewed as simply a pull-out program. Best-practices must be embedded in daily work. Such development will improve individual and collective practices of teachers. Second, professional development must be coherent. "Professional development might very well be a way to achieve coherence with tackling local, state, and national expectations for student achievement" (p. 299). As educators know so well, student achievement is the principal goal in today's schooling systems.
