Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning
Resources

Edited by:

Karen Hawley Miles - Education Resource Strategies
Anna Sommers
Patricia Roy
Valerie von Frank - Michigan State University, USA

A Joint Publication with Learning Forward

Other Titles in:
Finance/Funding/Grantwriting | Leadership | Staff Development & Professional Learning

February 2016 | 136 pages | Corwin

This groundbreaking 7-book series, co-developed by Learning Forward and Corwin, closes the "knowing-doing" gap by guiding educational leaders through the process for implementing the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning. Each volume tackles an individual standard, providing:

Original essays written by leading experts in the field to promote deeper understandings of the meaning of each standard
An array of templates, tools, and protocols to help you design and delivery quality professional learning in your own district or school
Case studies of districts "getting it right" and educators who have realized the promise of effective professional learning

Introduction to the Series - Stephanie Hirsh

The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning

The Resources Standard

About the Authors

1. Introduction - Karen Hawley Miles & Anna Sommers

A Comprehensive Framework for Improving Instruction

A Methodology for Quantifying Professional Growth & Support

Findings from Professional Growth and Support Spending Analyses

Opportunities to Shift and Maximize Professional Learning Resources

Constraints and Challenges

Ensuring Strong Return on Investment and Financial Sustainability of Professional Growth & Support

Conclusion

Appendices

Resources

Endnotes

2. TIME: The Resource a School Can Manage to Create More Effective Instruction - Patricia Roy

Restructuring Time for Collaborative Learning

Engage Faculty Members

Fulfilling the Promise of Collaborative Time

Final Word

References

3. The Case Study - Valerie Von Frank

Using This Case Study

Shifting Resources

Maintaining PLCS, Late Starts

Instructional Coaches

Walk-Throughs and Instructional Rounds

A New Form of Evaluation

Salina Intermediate School

Support Staff for Teachers

PLCs

Saturdays

Additional Learning Time

Walk-Throughs

Reducing Professional Learning Not an Option

References

Personal Testimonies

Index

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Sample Materials & Chapters

Introduction to the Series

The Resources Standard

Karen Hawley Miles

Karen Hawley Miles is executive director and founder of Education Resource Strategies, a nonprofit organization in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in strategic planning, organization, and resource allocation in urban public school districts. Her work aims to help states, districts, and schools rethink resource allocation and empower principals to create great schools and redirect resources to promote excellent teaching, individual attention for children, and productive instructional time. Miles has worked intensively with urban districts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Albuquerque, Boston, Baltimore, Providence, Rochester and Cincinnati... More About Author

Anna Sommers

Patricia Ann Roy

Dr. Patricia Roy is a Senior Consultant with Learning Forward’s Center for Results. She works with state departments of education, districts, and schools across the United States as well as internationally. Most recently, she developed briefings and a resource guide to help schools use results from the revised Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI2) to improve professional learning. She has authored many articles and chapters on effective professional development, school improvement, innovation configuration maps, and cooperative learning. In her work with Learning Forward, Pat developed professional learning resource toolkits for... More About Author

Valerie von Frank

Valerie von Frank has written extensively about education over several decades as a daily newspaper reporter in multiple states covering public schools and, over the last decade, for NSDC publications, including JSD, Tools for Schools, The Learning System, The Learning Principal, and T3. She is a former editor of JSD, worked as a daily newspaper editor, served as communications director in an urban public school district, and was communications director for a Michigan nonprofit school reform organization. She is co-author with Ann Delehant of Making Meetings Work: How to Get Started, Get Going, and Get It Done (Corwin Press, 2007). She is... More About Author

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