Why can't we get it right? : designing high-quality professional development for standards-based schools / Marsha Speck and Caroll Knipe ; foreword by Dennis Sparks
Essential questions about high-quality professional development -- Creating the culture for a learning community -- Conditions and processes for professional development -- Designing your own model -- Evaluating professional development -- Rethinking professional learning
Summary
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 profession
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154) and index
