Full Description
We interrupt this program to bring meaningful, conceptual change to your team's professional learning!
If you're involved in professional learning, you know that big ideas can sometimes get stuck on the way to becoming real change. Steven Katz and Lisa Ain Dack explain the secret to getting unstuck: interrupting the status quo of traditional activity-based professional development to help educators embrace permanent changes in thinking and behavior. They outline a process—grounded in psychological research—for real professional learning that ultimately leads to improved student achievement.
You can enable true learning by
Building a focus on learning, collaborative inquiry, and formal and informal instructional leadership in schools
Recognizing the psychological processes involved in adult learning, and overcoming the psychological biases and barriers to change
Using tools and strategies such as critical friend relationships, learning conversations, task sheets, and protocols
Illustrated with concrete, school-based examples drawn from real practice, Intentional Interruption shows how rethinking professional learning can lead to the development of a real and sustainable learning culture in your school.
"Few books challenge your thinking of a field to this degree. The authors reveal the secret key to unlocking true professional learning and thus impact for students."
—Terry Morganti-Fisher, Consultant
Learning Forward
"Before your learning team goes much further, it needs to stop, read, and collectively reflect on these insights. This book will identify those sticky challenges and how you can optimize your joint work."
—Mag Gardner, Superintendent of Student Achievement
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, ON
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. From Activity to Learning
2. The (Very) Hard Work of Learning
3. The Problem With Professional Learning
4. How Do Focus, Collaborative Inquiry, and Instructional Leadership Enable Learning?
5. The Barriers: How Our Minds Get in the Way
6. Intentional Interruption
References
Index
