Powerful Professional Development

"I love, love, love this book! This smorgasbord of professional development strategies maximizes time and on-site expertise. From the perspective of educators hungry for cost-effective, proven ways to promote ongoing, job-embedded professional learning, this is an à la carte menu for building healthy professional development ′meals′ based on specific needs and available resources."—Gail Ritchie, Instructional CoachFairfax County Public Schools, VA"This book offers a menu of practical, integrated, research-based tools and processes that engage and empower teachers and administrators in co-constructing a powerful form of job-embedded professional development that is relevant, focused, and organic, and allows schools to transform themselves into a self-sustaining learning organization."—Pedro R. Bermúdez, Professional Development SupportReady Schools Miami, FLAchieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including:Book study and lesson studyAction research and professional learning communitiesCoaching and co-teaching Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more