Powerful Professional Development

<p><strong><em>Achieve effective on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!</em></strong></p><p>This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings guidelines for implementation and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven cost-effective PD models including:</p><ul> <li>Book study and lesson study</li> <li>Action research and professional learning communities</li> <li>Coaching and co-teaching </li> <li>Webinars podcasts Open Space Technology online communities and much more</li></ul>