The Collective Wisdom of Practice

<strong>Leverage Professional Wisdom with Asset-Based Professional Learning </strong><br /><br />Many professional learning designs are built on the assumption that we learn best by studying our failures. However learning from failure often evokes responses of denial avoidance and the same defensive dynamics that contributed to the failure in the first place. Schechter’s resource presents the <em>Collective Learning-from-Success</em> approach. This fresh new assets-based framework will shift educators’ minds from focusing in isolation on failure to continuously deliberating together sharing past experiences and best practices and solving problems related to teaching and learning. Whether you serve as a teacher school or district leader or a policy maker your professional growth will benefit by reflecting on actionable knowledge through collective inquiry. <br /><br />This book offers educators an opportunity to come together in forming a productive alternative to the learning from failure paradigm. <em>The Collective Wisdom of Practice </em>provides a model for how to learn from successes by providing<br /><span style=white-space: pre;></span>•<span> </span>An assets-based approach to designing and implementing professional learning<br /><span style=white-space: pre;></span>•<span> </span>Strategies to focus on learning from educators’ past successes<br /><span style=white-space: pre;></span>•<span> </span>Multinational case studies sample learning materials templates and tools<br /><span style=white-space: pre;></span>•<span> </span>A framework that can be applied to multiple levels such as grade and subject areas building level system level and<br /><span style=white-space: pre;></span> policy level<br /><br />Grounded in more than 20 years of extensive research in the US and internationally this approach will have a powerful influence on professional learning. Learn to nurture your wisdom of practice to meet the challenge of preparing students to be co-creators of society. <br /><div> </div>