Professional Development
Books
- A New Vision for Staff Development
- A Practical Guide for New Teachers: Getting Started, Surviving. and Succeeding
- Advisor/Advisee Character Education – Lessons for Teachers and Counselors
- Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right-Using it Well – Total Development Package
- Collaborative Analysis of Student Work
- Educational Psychology – 95/96 – Annual Editions
- Educational Psychology – 00/01 – Annual Editions
- Educating Hearts and Minds
- Energizing Staff Development Using Film Clips
- Good to Great
- How to Use Action Research in the Self-Renewing School
- Learning the Craft of Training
- Professional Development: Learning from the Best
- Professional Development in Education
- Staff Development for Education in the ’90s
- Student Achievement Through Staff Development – 3rd Edition
- Systems for Change in Literacy Education
- Teaching Matters: Motivating and Inspiring Yourself
- Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development that Matters
- The Art of Classroom Inquiry
- The Encyclopedia of Group Activities – Structured 150 Practical Designs for Successful Facilitating
- The Encyclopedia of Icebreakers – Structured Activities that Warm-up, Motivate, Challenge, Acquaint and Energize
- Total Development Package: Assessment for Learning
- Total Development Package: Understanding School Assessment
- Total Development Package: Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom
- What Works in the Middle: Results-Based Staff Development
- Whole Faculty Study Groups
- Whole-Facility Study Groups – Creating Professional learning Communities That Target Student Learning 3rd Edition
Videos
- Attitude & Outlook – Educational Image Series
- Classroom Observations: Module 1
- Classroom Observations: Module 2
- Classroom Observations: Module 3
- Classroom Observations: Module 4
- Classroom Observations: Module 5
- Cognitive Coaching
- Collaborative Workplace and Peer Coaching
- Designing and Evaluating Professional Development for Increased Student Learning
- Education is…. – Educational Image Series
- Examining Student Work – Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning
- Examining Student Work – Facilitator’s Guide
- Examining Student Work – Improving Student Learning
- Examining Student Work – Standards in Practice
- Examining Student Work – The Tuning Protocol
- Excellence in Teaching: Avoiding Burnout
- Looking at Student Work – A Window Into the Classroom
- Opening Doors: An Introduction to Peer Coaching
- Professional Development on Tape: An Overview of Learning Styles
- Professional Development on Tape: Designing Performance Based Assessment for Powerful Student Learning
- Professional Development on Tape: Multicultural Awareness and Skill Development
- Professional Development on Tape: Self-Esteem- Yours, Theirs, and Ours
- Professional Development on Tape: Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers
- Professional Development on Tape: The Mainstream School- Interventions to Meet Student Needs
- Result Driven Staff Development
- Student Motivation – Educational Image Series
- Teaching Strategies – Educational Image Series
- The Collaborative Workplace and Peer Coaching
- The Frazzled Principal’s Health and Wellness Plan
- The Frazzled Teacher’s Health and Wellness Plan
- The Object of Teaching – Educational Image Series
- Total Development Package: Assessment for Student Motivation
- Total Development Package: Assessing Reasoning in the Classroom
- Total Development Package: Commonsense Paper and Pencil Assessments
- Total Development Package: Evaluating Assessment Quality: Hands-On Practice
- Total Development Package: Report Card Grading Strategies and Solutions
- Total Development Package: Student Involved Conferences
- Total Development Package: Student Involved Performance Assessment
- Whole Faculty Study Groups: Collaboration Targeting Student Learning
- Why Teachers Teach – Educational Image Series
Books
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Author | Dennis Sparks and Stephanie Hirsh | |
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development |
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Copyright | 1997 | |
Description | Describes a new method of staff development which includes results-driven education, systems thinking, and constructivism. | |
Reference Number | PD100.1 & .2 & .3 & .4 |
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Author | Emily Hassel | |
Publisher |
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory |
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Copyright | 1999 | |
Description | A comprehensive toolkit that describes a step-by-step process for planning, implementing, evaluating and sharing a successful school or district professional development program. | |
Reference Number | PD106 |
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Editors |
Thomas R. Guskey and Michael Huberman |
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Publisher | Teacher’s College | |
Copyright | 1995 | |
Description | Contains a collection of varied perspectives, with individual chapters written by researchers and theoreticians renowned for their work in the area of professional and career development. | |
Reference Number | PD107 |
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Editors | Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller | |
Publisher | Teacher’s College | |
Copyright | 1991 | |
Description |
Offers a sharpened, contemporary focus to one of the most challenging issues of educational change: the continuous growth and development of teachers. |
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Reference Number | PD108 |
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Author | Carol A. Lyons and Gay Su Pinnell | |
Publisher | Heinemann | |
Copyright | 2001 | |
Description |
Offers specific and quite often unique suggestions for planning and implementing a literacy professional development course. Cross reference with literacy |
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Reference Number | PD109 |
Title |
Student Achievement Through Staff Development – 3rd Edition | |
Author | Bruce Joyce & Beverly Showers | |
Publisher | ASCD | |
Copyright | 2002 | |
Description | Through case studies of successful programs, evidence from formal research, and concept illustrations, this book helps educators and administrators design programs that measurably improve student achievement. They fill the gaps in staff development programs by answering the following vexing questions from both educators and administrators:
The authors focus not on a specific program or innovation but instead on the potential for personal growth (and thus organizational growth) inherent in a staff development program. |
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Reference Number | PD126 Cross Reference: SPPD100 |
Title |
What Works in the Middle: Results-Based Staff Development | |
Author | Joellen Killion | |
Publisher | NSDC | |
Copyright | 1999 | |
Description | This guide has several purposes. First, it provides information and resources for selecting, designing, and evaluating staff development to improve student achievement. Second, this guide serves as a “conversation piece,” to answer some fundamental questions, and third, will help decision-makers become savvy consumers of staff development by providing:
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Reference Number | PD127 Cross Reference: SPPD101 |
Title |
Flawless Consulting – A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used – 2nd Editon | |
Author | Peter Block | |
Publisher | Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer | |
Copyright | 1981 | |
Description | This book is for any who does consulting, even if you don’t call yourself a consultant. You are consulting any time you are trying to change or improve a situation but have no direct control over the implementation. If you have direct control, you are managing, not consulting. the consultant’s lack of direct control and authority is what makes our task difficult. This book is about having leverage and impact when we don’t have direct control. Leverage and impact mean our expertise is used and our recommendations are accepted. The path to having leverage and impact is what the author called flawless consultation. This book is a guide to developing the skills to navigate that path. | |
Reference Number | PD130 |
Videos
Title |
Opening Doors: An Introduction to Peer Coaching | |
Author | Robins/Wolfe | |
Publisher | ASCD | |
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Description | ||
Reference Number | PD002.1 & PR002.2 |