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Champion, Robby – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
If professional learning leaders are looking for a clear path lined with models of best program evaluation practices, they will become tangled in the weeds. After working for several decades to help professional learning leaders and their teams improve programs and evaluations, the author has observed several habits of mind and work that can make…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Capacity Building, Program Evaluation, Leaders Guides
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Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Not all feedback is created equal. It is actually quite uneven in its design and effectiveness. Feedback forms typically used by educators and the feedback process used to support learning have markedly different attributes. Understanding the key attributes of effective feedback is important for those involved in the feedback process. The tools…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Best Practices, Readiness, Formative Evaluation
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Hirsh, Stephanie – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Time and collaborative learning experiences are key to successful implementation of literacy standards. Leadership is just as important. What do system and school leaders do that teachers value most and identify as most helpful in their efforts to ensure high-quality literacy and standards-based instruction for all students? According survey…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Best Practices, Instructional Leadership, Governance
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Foltos, Les – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
For the past 12 years, the author has worked with peer coaches in more than 40 countries, and has seen schools where peer coaches have collaborated with colleagues to improve teaching and learning in classrooms across the school. In other schools, coaches have played a critical role in creating a culture of collaboration that helps build the…
Descriptors: Principals, Coaching (Performance), Partnerships in Education, Interprofessional Relationship
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Psencik, Kay – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
This article describes the role of coach as one that would nurture and build trust in their organization, allow others to see the coach as trustworthy, and build positive energy in the organization. The author offers some qualities that contribute to this trustworthy position, such as: self-awareness, honesty, sincerity, competence, reliability,…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Coaching (Performance), Role, Program Descriptions
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Lemons, Richard W.; Stevenson, Isobel – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Across the United States, there are schools whose students are significantly outperforming and out-improving those from nearby schools. In almost any geographic location in America, within a 30-minute drive there exist schools where classrooms are alive with stimulating learning, day in and day out. Not too far away from these schools are schools…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Systems Approach
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Marcellus, Angela; Flores, Matt; Craig, Anthony – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
More than a decade of school leadership research from The Wallace Foundation highlights not only the critical role of the principal but also the practices that effective school leaders undertake. A recent brief (The Wallace Foundation, 2011) distills these practices into five key functions: (1) Shape a vision of academic success for all students;…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Reflection
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Unger, Jennifer – Journal of Staff Development, 2013
This article seeks to answer the following questions: (1) What is keeping educators from moving districts and schools to high-performing data cultures? and (2) What vital role does leadership play? Three years ago, as a senior designer and facilitator, Jennifer Unger developed a data leadership academy to address challenges for leaders, whether…
Descriptors: Data, Best Practices, Cooperation, Teacher Collaboration
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Ittner, Anne; Helman, Lori; Burns, Matthew; McComas, Jennifer – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Research highlights the importance of individualized approaches and coaching to ongoing professional learning (Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, & Orphanos, 2009). The purpose of this article is to describe an initiative that set out to help all students become proficient readers by 3rd grade. It demonstrates how coaching can support…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Organizational Objectives, Educational Needs, Teacher Education
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Bergman, Barbara – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Teachers in the Federal Way (Wash.) Public Schools had no shortage of student data. Standardized test scores, unit tests, and report card grades were as familiar to educators as reading, writing, and arithmetic. With the onset of statewide testing in the 1990s, data analysis was expanded to cover a multitude of state learning goals in grades 4, 7,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Utilization
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Dillon, Paula; Erkens, Cassandra; Sanna, Diane; Savastano, Linda F. – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Eight school districts in Rhode Island formed the East Bay Professional Learning Community to launch a joint effort to develop a culture of assessment literacy through ongoing professional learning focused on team-specific action plans tightly aligned to school, district, and state initiatives. To accomplish this, the districts pooled their…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Shared Resources and Services, Best Practices, Student Evaluation
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Gill, Jennifer – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Every district wants its schools to shine, and more are recognizing that, in order to raise performance, they need well-trained principals who can shake up the status quo and create an environment where all students flourish. Indeed, in a six-year study analyzing data from 180 schools in nine states, researchers from the Universities of Minnesota…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
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Saphier, Jon – Journal of Staff Development, 2011
What would happen if people found agreement around the world on what constitutes high-expertise teaching? For one thing, there would be a set of standards universally embraced that clearly defines core agreements about good teaching and learning. It would be obvious that proficiency in the knowledge, skills, and practices that comprise good…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Skills, Educational Practices, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Ermeling, Bradley A. – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Establishing school-based professional learning appears so simple and straightforward during inspiring presentations at summer workshops, but keeping collaborative work focused on teaching and learning in such a way that it produces consistent results is a highly underestimated task. Investigations and experience from a group of researchers at the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Summer Programs, Workshops, Sustainability
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Karge, Belinda Dunnick; Lasky, Beth – Journal of Staff Development, 2009
With the everyday juggling act principals perform, they have a daunting challenge to keep up the latest research in education. At the same time, the literature documents an intensive need for increased professional development of principals in special education (Goar, Schwenn, & Boyer, 1997; Lasky & Karge, 2006; McLaughlin & Nolet, 2004). To…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Special Education, Principals, Best Practices
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