Description
We interrupt this program to bring meaningful change to professional learning!
Big ideas can sometimes get stuck on the way to becoming real change. The authors 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. 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
Table of 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
