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Elevate School-Based Professional Learning
Empower teachers to design, implement, and evaluate their own school-based professional learning to improve collective teacher efficacy and impact student achievement. This book offers tools and strategies for creating effective school professional development that most directly ties to daily application of skills.
Benefits
- Collaboratively study and solve issues unique to each school.
- 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 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Understanding School-Based Professional Learning
Chapter 1: Discovering Why School-Based Professional Learning Works
Chapter 2: Sharing Responsibility for School-Based Professional Learning
Part 2: Working Through the School-Based Professional Learning Cycle
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
Part 3: Preparing for Challenges
Chapter 10: Facing Challenges
Epilogue
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Introduction to Elevate School-Based Professional Learning
- Assessing the Current State of School-Based Professional Learning
- Decision Making About School-Based Professional Learning
Chapter 2
- Checklist of Roles and Responsibilities
- Roles for School-Based Professional Learning
- Staff Perception of Their Engagement in Decisions About Professional Learning
Chapter 3
- Data-Driven Dialogue Note-Catcher
- Survey for Assessing School Culture
- Here’s What, So What, Now What?
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.3: Sample Commitments for Accomplishing a Lead Indicator
- Psychological Safety Survey
- Planning Peer Classroom Visits
- Writing an Innovation Configuration Map
- Remember the Joy
Chapter 7
- Setting Norms for Data-Analysis Meetings
- Writing Surveys
- Creating a Plan for Comprehensive or Rapid Cycles of Evaluation
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
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