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By Joellen Killion & Patricia Roy
NSDC, 2009
From setting the stage to engaging the community in understanding the purpose of collaborative professional learning teams, this book covers what leaders need to know to implement more effective professional learning. Chapter 5 focuses on scheduling time for both formal and informal learning opportunities. Included are 12 tools to guide schools and districts through the steps outlined in the chapter.
By Valerie von Frank
JSD, Spring 2009, Vol. 30, No. 2
A long-term commitment to job-embedded professional development creates a culture of continuous learning in one Michigan district. Every Wednesday, students’ day is shortened by two hours to make time for teachers’ professional development in Holt Public Schools. Many of the articles in this issue of JSD are devoted to time for professional learning.
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By Joan Richardson
The Learning System, March 2007, Vol. 2, No. 6
A district undergoes a cultural shift to more job-embedded, results-driven, and standards-based professional development. The new approach was made possible in large part because the teachers union and the district shifted to an interest-based bargaining model rather than the traditional adversarial model. The newsletter also includes a tool, “Strategies for finding time.”
By Karel Holloway
Tools for Schools, April/May 2003, Vol. 6, No. 5
This article outlines six steps to creating a summer professional learning program: Choose your planning team, look at the data, set goals, decide how to achieve them, determine funding and location, and plan follow-up. Included in the newsletter are four tools and a list of resources for planning a summer learning program.
Fullan, M. & Stiegelbauer, S.M. (1991). The new meaning of educational change. Toronto, Ontario: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Hord, S.M. (2004). Learning together, leading together: Changing schools through professional learning communities. New York: Teachers College Press.
Killion, J. & Roy, P. (2009). Becoming a learning school. Oxford, OH: NSDC.
Learning Forward is the only professional association devoted exclusively to those who work in educator professional development. We help our members plan, implement, and measure high-quality professional learning so they can achieve success with their systems, schools, and students.
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