Leading Professional Conversations

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>School leaders face complex challenges that typically have multiple causes and often persist despite everyone's best attempts to address them. Addressing complex challenges requires juggling both the big picture and the specific parts of the challenge. Without a roadmap this process is fraught and unlikely to succeed in improving outcomes. In order to make a difference schools need adaptive expertise; a skill which can be learnt through professional conversations and inquiry.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Leading professional conversations</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)> Emeritus Professor Helen Timperley deftly outlines the key enablers for effective professional conversations - relationships resources processes knowledge and culture - which support teachers to be independent learners and result in positive impact on educational social and emotional outcomes for students.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Featuring examples from real conversations between school leaders and educators and practical templates which can be adapted to suit the contexts of your school </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Leading professional conversations</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)> is the school leader's guide to thinking and acting evaluatively knowledgeably metacognitively collaboratively responsively and systematically to engage in deep professional learning and genuine improvements in practice.</span></p><p></p>