They developed a coherent system
of professional learning in the district, creating a culture of collaboration and thought partnership and ensuring better support for school leaders.
What
type of professional learning experiences lead to this kind of intense teacher commitment, as seen in this teacher's statement, to value all students even when it challenges established teaching patterns?
Leading Educators leverages research and instructional best practices to build relevant, job - embedded
systems of professional learning designed to drive radical, system - wide improvements in teacher practice and student performance.
You will be introduced to a challenge that represents a core leadership task — the development and
implementation of professional learning experiences for school staff that focus on «culturally responsive pedagogy.».
They argue that the research community has failed to offer useful guidelines for «best practice» that would help improve the quality and effectiveness
of professional learning activities.
In fact, the key to understanding the
power of professional learning communities is to understand the power of collaborative teams taking collective responsibility for results.
Through a combination
of professional learning sessions and leadership coaching, principals are equipped to form a cohesive building leadership team that leverages teacher leaders for school wide improvement of student learning.
Before thinking about the format and
content of any professional learning experience, we must first consider the specific student learning outcomes we want to attain and what evidence will best reflect those outcomes.
You will also have experience in the design and
delivery of professional learning to the education and care sector, as well as experience in managing projects and stakeholder relationships.
We argue that our analysis can inform research on mathematics and science coaching, coaching policies, and the
design of professional learning for coaches.
To that end, we embrace the
concept of professional learning communities, where teachers provide one another with valuable feedback on their work and that of their students.
Through decades of research, these experts have developed hundreds
of professional learning resources for educators, including videos, articles, teacher tools, and student tools.
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