Why Can't We Get It Right?: Designing High-Quality Professional Development for Standards-Based Schools

By Marsha Speck

Book Overview

How can we use professional development to provide the best teaching and learning opportunities for all students?

Teachers who know their content and strategies can open a virtual toolbox and take out what they need to help all students become successful. This revised and updated edition explains how educational leaders can design, deliver, and evaluate collaborative standards-based professional development, and contains:

Essential questions about high-quality professional development Information on creating the culture for a learning community Conditions and processes for professional development Suggestions on designing your own model Tools for evaluating and rethinking professional development and learning Strategies for deepening a leader's impact on a standards-based system

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412906520
• ISBN13: 9781412906524
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"