Leading Professional Learning

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Today's school leaders are faced with the increasingly daunting task of leading their schools to improve to innovate and to become ever more responsive to change. There are many resources to help schools to engage with improvement frameworks but few that directly address the complexity of the challenges that inevitably arise along the way. Based on extensive research in the field including the outcomes of a five-year project on school improvement and professional learning in Australia and New Zealand Leading Professional Learning: Practical strategies for impact in schools identifies the challenges that school leaders face when leading professional learning and development in their schools as part of an improvement agenda.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Renowned professional development expert Helen Timperley has collaborated with a team of prominent authors including Fiona Ell Deidre Le Fevre and Kaye Twyford to uncover the reasons underpinning these challenges and to provide practical strategies on how to address them. Case studies excerpts from real teachers' experiences and step-by-step examples of useful strategies including the spiral of inquiry give school leaders the tools they need to tackle complex challenges in teaching learning curriculum delivery and pedagogical practice in both primary and secondary settings.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)>Leading Professional Learning: Practical strategies for impact in schools</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(71 71 71 1)> is a hands-on resource for school leaders to identify specific professional learning and development issues that accompany the learning and change process and to overcome them in their schools. </span></p>