Jeff Maher
Jeff Maher (jamaher@smcps.org) is director of professional and organizational development at St. Mary’s County Public Schools in Leonardtown,Md.
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From solo to ensemble
A teacher sits alone at her desk, yet she is working collaboratively with a team of two dozen educators in a professional learning community. Teachers who were once isolated by distance and the nature of their jobs are connecting across schools in online professional learning communities. While riding the wave […] -
My mentor, myself
While teachers can tell us wonderful stories of success, anecdotes and other informal assessments are not enough in an age of accountability. In Prince George’s County Public Schools (Maryland), our evaluation processes helped us blend soft data with hard data — and helped us learn key lessons in the process, […]