Secure the resources needed to support educator professional growth!
Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning.
In this volume, you will learn creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes:
- An original essay by Karen Hawley Miles and Anna Sommers on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth
- Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources—especially time—for teacher learning
- A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times
Learn how wise management of professional learning resources can help achieve stronger outcomes for your educators and students!
Table des matières
Introduction to the Series – Stephanie Hirsh
The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The Resources Standard
About the Authors
1. Introduction – Karen Hawley Miles & Anna Sommers
A Comprehensive Framework for Improving Instruction
A Methodology for Quantifying Professional Growth & Support
Findings from Professional Growth and Support Spending Analyses
Opportunities to Shift and Maximize Professional Learning Resources
Constraints and Challenges
Ensuring Strong Return on Investment and Financial Sustainability of Professional Growth & Support
Conclusion
Appendices
Resources
Endnotes
2. TIME: The Resource a School Can Manage to Create More Effective Instruction – Patricia Roy
Restructuring Time for Collaborative Learning
Engage Faculty Members
Fulfilling the Promise of Collaborative Time
Final Word
References
3. The Case Study – Valerie Von Frank
Using This Case Study
Shifting Resources
Maintaining PLCS, Late Starts
Instructional Coaches
Walk-Throughs and Instructional Rounds
A New Form of Evaluation
Salina Intermediate School
Support Staff for Teachers
PLCs
Saturdays
Additional Learning Time
Walk-Throughs
Reducing Professional Learning Not an Option
References
Personal Testimonies
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Valerie von Frank has written extensively about education over several decades as a daily newspaper reporter in multiple states covering public schools and, over the last decade, for NSDC publications, including JSD, Tools for Schools, The Learning System, The Learning Principal, and T3. She is a former editor of JSD, worked as a daily newspaper editor, served as communications director in an urban public school district, and was communications director for a Michigan nonprofit school reform organization. She is co-author with Ann Delehant of Making Meetings Work: How to Get Started, Get Going, and Get It Done (Corwin Press, 2007). She is currently NSDC’s book editor and a freelance writer and editor.
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