Designing Schools for Meaningful Professional Learning

A Guidebook for Educators

Janice Bradley

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781483339221
• eBook ISBN: 9781506300412
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

Empower your teachers as partners in professional learning­—and see student achievement soar!

 

Are you ready for a professional learning program that makes a lasting difference in the quality of teaching within your school or district?

 

Janice Bradley, a highly-respected educator shows how to promote your faculty's professional growth and accountability through job-embedded learning. This breakthrough book enables education leaders to

• Work collaboratively with faculty to develop and implement a five-part plan for professional learning designed to meet your school's unique needs 
• Connect professional learning with practices that have the greatest positive effect in the classroom
• Link professional development to teacher evaluation in a manner that builds trust
• Learn best practices from schools that implemented Bradley's methodology, and benefit from user-friendly strategies and tools

Say goodbye to top-down programming that's quickly forgotten, and discover an approach that empowers and inspires your faculty at all levels of experience. 

"It?s hard to imagine a simple, five-step process that could integrate all of Learning Forward?s seven professional learning standards, yet that is exactly what Janice Bradley has done in the book, Designing Schools for Meaningful Professional Learning."

—Patricia Roy, Senior Consultant

Learning Forward Center for Results

 

"I've never experienced professional learning such as this! Taking part in collaborative learning with my team gave me the opportunity to explore questions and curiosities about my students that have been buried in years of district-driven professional development. Now my colleagues and I research together in order to create a learning environment every child deserves."

—Kathryn Million, First-Grade Dual Language Teacher

Las Cruces, NM

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• 1 Moving to Meaningful Professional Learning in Schools
• 2 The Five-Part Plan How to Design a School for Meaningful Professional Learning
• 3 Cycles of Learning Designs Connected to the Classroom
• 4 The Power of Teachers Selecting Learning Designs
• 5 Assessing and Evaluating Changes
• 6 The Principal The Key to Making Learning Happen
• 7 Three Dimensions of Learning Designs Technical, Psychological/Emotional, and Social
• 8 Building a School's Professional Knowledge Base
• 9 Meaningful Learning to Remember
• Closing Reflections
• References
• Resources
• Index
• Publisher Note