Powerful Professional Development: Building Expertise Within the Four Walls of Your School

Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!

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:

• Book study and lesson study
• Action research and professional learning communities
• Coaching and co-teaching
• Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more