Full Description
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!
Contents
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
