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Do you know how your system aligns to the Standards for Professional Learning?

Standards Assessment Inventory 2 Quickly and easily assess the quality of your system’s professional learning with Learning Forward’s Standards Assessment Inventory 2 (SAI2). ASSESSMENT • Determine your system’s alignment of professional learning to the standards; • Collect data on the quality of professional learning as defined by the Standards for Professional Learning; • Discover teachers’ perceptions of professional learning; • Understand the degree of success and challenges you face with professional learning practices; and • Examine the relationship of the standards to your improvements in educator effectiveness and student achievement.

INTERPRETATION AND PLANNING Learning Forward guides educators through data interpretation and action planning. Systems can leverage data from the SAI2 to guide the planning, facilitation, implementation, and evaluation of professional learning to maximize its impact and investment. To learn more, call Tom Manning at 972-421-0900 or visit www.learningforward.org/consulting

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Powerful Designs for Professional Learning Edited by Lois Brown Easton Filled with 24 learning designs, the latest edition of Learning Forward’s bestseller helps educators understand the kinds of learning experiences that result in changed practices and better results for students. The book includes chapters authored by more than 30 of the field’s leading experts in adult learning. Context-setting chapters help educators explore the idea of meaningful learning designs and the importance of considering system factors in professional learning. The broad range of designs allows educators to find the best strategies for their particular needs and circumstances. Each chapter includes a narrative about the design in use, an overview and rationale, concrete steps for implementation, alternatives, and challenges and how to address them. Fifteen of the 24 designs in this version are all new. The others have been updated, many incorporating aspects of technology. This comprehensive resource includes a link and password to dozens of exclusive online resources. B587, 384 pp. + online tools, $64.00 members, $80.00 nonmembers

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Featured learning designs and authors Accessing Student Voices Kathleen Cushman

Instructional Rounds Lee Teitel

Action Research Cathy Caro-Bruce and Mary Klehr

Lesson Study Catherine C. Lewis

Assessment as Professional Learning Jay McTighe and Marcella Emberger

Online Coaching Joellen Killion

Classroom Walk-Throughs for Peers Carolyn J. Downey Coaching Principals Kay Psencik Collaborative Analysis of Student Learning Amy B. Colton and Georgea M. Langer Critical Friends Groups Stevi Quate Curriculum as Professional Learning Eleanor Dougherty, Stacy Galiatsos, and Anne C. Lewis Data Analysis Victoria L. Bernhardt Dialogue Oscar Graybill Digital Teacher Portfolios David Niguidula Instructional Coaching Chris Bryan, Heather Clifton, and Cindy Harrison

Online Courses John D. Ross Online Protocols Alan Dichter and Janet Mannheimer Zydney Professional Learning Communities Lois Brown Easton Shadowing Michael Soguero, Dan Condon, Colin Packard, and Lois Brown Easton Social Media Lynmarie Hilt Teacher-Led Conferences Matthew Esterman and Cameron Paterson Videos Pat Wasley Visual Dialogue Suzanne Bailey and Lois Brown Easton Webinars Tom Manning

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Professional Learning Plans: A Workbook for Schools, Districts, and States Professional learning that leads to changed practices and improved results for students requires careful coordination and planning. An effective learning plan establishes short- and long-term plans for professional learning and implementation of the learning. Such plans guide individuals, schools, districts, and states in coordinating learning experiences designed to achieve outcomes for educators and students. This workbook covers a seven-step planning framework that helps learning leaders at every level. Based on the backmapping model for planning professional learning, the seven steps start with data analysis and include goal setting, determining appropriate learning designs, implementing learning, and evaluation. Readers will explore and understand the backmapping model and how it guides meaningful learning, and then turn to exclusive online tools for protocols, models, additional readings, and action planning. This workbook was created as part of Learning Forward’s multiyear initiative Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core. Learning Forward, 2015 B590, 60 pp. + online tools, $25.40 members, $32.00 nonmembers

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New in the Bookstore Available now!

Online Courses Learning Forward’s online courses give you access to in-depth online learning, on your own schedule. Dig deeply into core topics in professional learning through interactive presentations, videos, insights from leaders in the field, and more. EACH COURSE FEATURES:

Planning and Designing Professional Learning

• Free digital copies of research reports, JSD articles, and other valuable resources.

This course features tools, protocols, and strategies to help you develop professional learning plans for individuals, teams, schools, or whole systems, and select learning designs that focus on improved teacher practice and student results.

• Dozens of tools and protocols to help you transfer your learning into practice. • Videos from leading authors, researchers, and practitioners. • Reflection opportunities that measure your understanding of course outcomes and tie the learning to your work. • Full mobile compatibility — learn on your phone, iPad, or Android, whenever and wherever you want. • Course completion certificates and CEU credits fulfill your professional learning requirements as you increase your impact on educator and student learning.

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Participants in this course: • Use the seven-step backmapping model to plan professional learning that improves student performance. • Apply adult learning research and models to select learning designs that are appropriate for your context and meet the needs of adult learners. • Use theories of change and logic models to ensure professional learning is successfully implemented, evaluated, and sustained.

Standards for Professional Learning Designed both for educators new to the standards and leaders seeking guidance in implementing effective standards-based professional learning, this course is an in-depth exploration of the standards and what they look like in action. This course: • Provides a rationale for standards-based professional learning as a driver for teaching effectiveness and student achievement. • Describes the implications of the standards in designing, implementing, and evaluating professional learning. • Includes practical examples of each standard’s role in promoting educator and student learning and how they appear in practice by various educator groups. • Provides tools and strategies for assessing the alignment of your professional learning practices with the standards.

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Establishing Time for Professional Learning Learn from schools and districts that are developing innovative ways to embed professional learning into the culture of their schools, and get tools to help guide the process of establishing collaborative learning time. All courses: $135.20 for members, $169.00 for nonmembers. Order through our online bookstore.

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B576, 240 pp. + online tools $64.00 members $80.00 nonmembers

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Becoming a Learning System

Becoming a Learning School

By Stephanie Hirsh, Kay Psencik, & Frederick Brown

By Joellen Killion & Patricia Roy

Every student should have the opportunity to attend a great school filled with great teachers. This book explores the idea that, for this to happen, school districts must become learning systems. In a learning system, every educator in the district focuses intently on learning – at whatever level they serve. Those educators share responsibility for student and adult learning, dedicate themselves to continuous improvement, use data to drive decisions, and monitor and adjust their practices based on feedback. This book is based on Learning Forward’s definition of professional learning and Standards for Professional Learning, which together offer district leaders a framework to guide daily decisions that promote continuous improvement. The book outlines the knowledge, skills, attitudes, dispositions, and behaviors district leaders need to lead, facilitate, and coach school leaders and leadership teams to embed the definition and standards into schools’ daily routines. The tools and strategies that accompany the definition and standards can guide district staff in: • Understanding who is responsible for what; • Developing an instructional framework; • Establishing principal learning communities; • Monitoring implementation of new initiatives; • Determining the meaning and implications of data; • Coaching principals to higher levels of performance; • Providing feedback to colleagues and principals, and much more. This book builds on the Chapter 3 ideas explored in Becoming a Components of a Learning School. As with that comprehensive volume, the chapters in this comprehensive tool learning system Tool 3.5 kit are supplemented Three purposes of Professional Learning by dozens of additional Where are We noW? tools. Becoming a Learning SyStem

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The days of teachers toiling alone on student learning challenges are coming to a close as more and more educators understand the power of collaborative learning. When educators throughout a school commit collectively to transforming their buildings into learning schools, students reap the benefits. However, effective professional learning communities do not just happen when schools bring groups of learners together. They take focused effort to build and sustain. From setting the stage to engaging the community in understanding the purpose of collaborative professional learning teams, this volume covers what leaders need to know to implement more effective professional learning.

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Chapters focus on changing school culture, scheduling time, planning, using data, designs for professional learning, facilitating collaborative professional learning teams, evaluating learning, and more. The book outlines the roles of central office administrators, the principal, and the coach in creating successful, effective learning teams. An accompanying CD includes nearly 500 pages of tools. In addition, using the included Innovation Configuration map, teams can assess just where they stand in reaching critical objectives for effective learning. of concern 4.7BeComiNgaa measure leaRNiNg SChool

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anticipate change: Design a transition meeting

Becoming a Learning School was created for both individuals and teams seeking to build learning teams on a solid foundation and those committed to refining and strengthening their learning, work, and results. BeComiNg a leaRNiNg SChool

National Staff Development Council • www.nsdc.org

Build on the ideas in this book with the latest resource from Learning Forward and purchase Becoming a Learning System as well. B423, 177 pp. + CD-ROM $48.00 members, $60.00 nonmembers

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Coaching

The Coach’s Craft: Powerful Practices to Support School Leaders Kay Psencik

Coaching Matters By Joellen Killion, Cindy Harrison, Chris Bryan, Heather Clifton Does coaching matter? Yes! Coaching can increase teacher effectiveness and student learning. Successful coaching, however, doesn’t happen just by hiring dynamic coaches. Successful coaching requires strong leadership, a clear focus and goals, essential resources, well-prepared staff, monitoring, and rigorous evaluations. Each chapter in this book describes an element of what research and the authors’ firsthand experiences know it takes to make coaching effective. The book covers: • Characteristics that distinguish effective coaching programs; • Attributes that affect teaching practices, student achievement, and school culture; • Practices that lead to results for teachers and students; • Responsibilities of coaches; • Strategies for individual coaches, principals, and school systems to build a stronger coaching program; and more. Chapter 3: Characteristics of effective coaches

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Use this tool to demonstrate the impact of Listens skillfully coaching on teachers’ practices. gain an understanding of the range of coaching stances with this visual Communicates effectively depiction. adapt for your own situation this example

conversation Uses multiple methods to of an instructional Communicates effectively protocol that an instructional coach might use. assess student learning

Classroom checklistsuccess as a Provide technical coaching about specific Does 4.4 not presume to have observation Demonstrates Uses effective questioning instructional the answer classroom teacher skills practices using a checklist such as this one. is committed to continuous articulates practice Understands and uses a 4.5 Peer observation protocol Focus specific a conversation based on a peer improvement reflection process has moral purpose reflects on practice 4.6 Instructional planning template Can let go of being responsible for another person’s behaviors

observation using this protocol. Diagnoses teachers’ needs Use this template as a planning tool support with coach, or as a beforealigns meeting with your identifiedasneeds coach,teachers’ use the template a guide for planning lessons with teachers.

Coaches and those who support, serve, and supervise them — from principals to district leaders — can use Coaching Matters to begin or refine a program, based on expert guidance from authors who have done this work.

Coaching leaders demands high-level skills that challenge even the most knowledgeable and experienced coaches. Grow in confidence and competence in the coaching role by exploring the foundation of highly effective coaching, attributes of successful coaches, and strategies for coaching. Define effective coaching using an Innovation Configuration map, learn new ways of thinking that lead to more effective coaching, and understand how to develop a coach’s wisdom. Learn to create a purposeful, focused action plan. Establish goals, and design strategies to achieve them. Take steps to develop trust, observation skills, listening and questioning techniques, and use the self-assessment tool to uncover your own strengths along with those of the individuals you are coaching. Each chapter offers questions for reflection, strategies and investigations, and suggested readings. Learning Forward, 2011 B530, 211 pp., $32.00 members, $40.00 nonmembers

Taking the Lead: New Roles for Teachers and School-Based Coaches Joellen Killion & Cindy Harrison This book explores the complex, multi-faceted roles played by teacher leaders and schoolbased coaches as well as examining district and school expectations, hiring practices, and deployment of these educators. Includes a CD-ROM with more than 200 pages of resources in PDF format plus Innovation Configuration maps for the school-based learning leader. NSDC, 2006 B352, 212 pp. + CD-ROM, $36.00 members, $45.00 nonmembers

B542, 191 pp. +online tools, $36.00 members, $45.00 nonmembers CoaChing Matters

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Inquiry: A Districtwide Approach to Staff and Student Learning

The Learning Educator: A New Era for Professional Learning

Nancy Fichtman Dana, Carol Thomas, & Sylvia Boynton

Stephanie Hirsh & Joellen Killion

This book helps districts define, develop, and implement a systematic inquiry-based process with a laser-like focus on both adult and student learning. The authors’ school improvement model offers a fresh look at how to improve the quality of teaching and learning across a district. Administrators, teachers, and students will find an invaluable road map for tackling real-world challenges and taking control of their own learning. Corwin with Learning Forward, 2011 B529, 173 pp. $35.00 members, $43.75 nonmembers

Hirsh and Killion outline eight principles to guide professional learning during the next era. If professional development decision makers adopt these principles, the authors believe they will contribute to ensuring that professional learning will improve leading, teaching, and learning. This book helps readers understand what qualifies as effective professional learning, enables them to believe that this kind of professional learning is possible to achieve, and provides a blueprint that enables thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners to join together in this crucial work. NSDC, 2007 B372, 140 pp. $25.60 members, $32.00 nonmembers

A School Board Guide to Leading Successful Schools Stephanie Hirsh & Anne Foster

enables board members to:

This invaluable guide addresses the top challenges experienced by nearly every school board, and shows how professional learning can assist in overcoming these challenges and support positive changes. Aligned with Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning, this resource

• Learn from case studies focused on 12 critical board-level decisions, including hiring a new superintendent, resource allocation. • Deepen your understanding of leadership and actions that advance school success and benefit the wider community. Corwin, 2013 B562, 248 pp. $37.00 members, $46.25 nonmembers

Tools & Talk: Data, Conversation, and Action for Classroom and School Improvement Michael Murphy How do teachers and coaches start a conversation that will lead to improved practice? This book provides structures and suggestions to answer that question for anyone who works with classroom teachers to find new ways to improve student learning. Murphy provides a framework for conversations around the data, as well as prompts that allow coaches to discuss the findings in a collegial, collaborative way to encourage teachers to think critically about their own practices. NSDC, 2009 B425, 130 pp. $33.60 members, $42.00 nonmembers

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Change, Lead, Succeed: Building Capacity with School Leadership Teams Linda Munger & Valerie von Frank Redefine leadership in your school, and create capacity through school leadership teams that successfully coordinate professional learning. Change, Lead, Succeed shows school leaders and teachers in leadership roles what they need to know to effectively create a culture for change. Find out what distinguishes a school leadership team from other school teams, clarify the school leadership team’s role in building school capacity through job-embedded, school-centered professional learning, and go beyond merely setting school goals to achieving them. Use Change, Lead, Succeed to create a team of teacher leaders who can make a difference — for both teacher and student learning. NSDC, 2010

The Power of Teacher Teams: With Cases, Analyses, and Strategies for Success Vivian Troen & Katherine C. Boles Through richly detailed case studies, The Power of Teacher Teams demonstrates how schools can transform their teams into more effective learning communities that foster teacher leadership. School leaders will find guidelines, methods, and concrete steps for building and sustaining effective teacher teams. Also included are online video case studies. The most important reason for building teacher teams is to enhance student learning through improved instruction—and that story is at the heart of this book. Corwin with Learning Forward, 2011 B516, 256 pp. $44.00 members, $55.00 nonmembers

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Professional Learning Communities by Design: Putting the Learning Back Into PLCs Lois Brown Easton Follow the PLC creation and implementation process through the school year, starting with setting the stage, moving through structures and protocols, and focusing ultimately on the future to ensure results for all students. Awardwinning educator Lois Brown Easton’s book provides a compelling case study in narrative form; a chronological PLC planning outline; and first-hand lessons learning about how PLCs develop, mature, and sustain themselves. Corwin with Learning Forward, 2011 B514, 304 pp., $48.00 members, $60.00 nonmembers

Team to Teach: A Facilitator’s Guide to Professional Learning Teams Anne Jolly This step-by-step book includes everything facilitators need to help educators build a successful professional learning team. Written in easy-to-read language, background sections set the stage for each of 10 chapters that steer groups through the process. A comprehensive set of tools, totaling 150 pages, enables facilitators and learning team leaders to take the necessary actions that will lead to high-performing teams. Free with purchase: Online access to download a PDF of the tools. NSDC, 2008 B394, 276 pp. + online tools, $40.00 members, $50.00 nonmembers

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The Life Cycle of Leadership: Surviving and Thriving in Today’s Schools Stephen Uebbing & Mike Ford The challenges of leadership come in distinct cycles of survival, creation, and legacy, according to the authors. Learn to recognize the challenges of each cycle and be ready to adjust your leadership to match your context using research-based strategies. Understand how a clear moral purpose can enhance every leader’s ability to lead effective change. Learning Forward, 2010 B487, 166 pp., $28.00 members, $35.00 nonmembers

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Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development, 2nd Edition Joellen Killion

Getting Teacher Evaluation Right: What Really Matters for Effectiveness and Improvement Linda Darling-Hammond In this book, Linda Darling-Hammond makes a compelling case for a research-based approach to teacher evaluation that supports collaborative models of teacher planning and learning. She outlines the most current research informing evaluation of teaching practice that incorporates evidence of what teachers do and what their students learn. In addition, she examines the harmful consequences of using any single student test as a basis for evaluating individual teachers. Finally, Darling-Hammond offers a vision of teacher evaluation as part of a teaching and learning system that supports continuous improvement, both for individual teachers and for the profession as a whole. Teachers College Press with Learning Forward, 2013 B555, 192 pp., $25.00 members, $31.25 nonmembers

Leading For Results: Transforming Teaching, Learning, And Relationships In Schools, 2Nd Edition

Assessing Impact was created for anyone responsible for designing and measuring the impact of professional learning programs. Killion provides guidance and practical resources through an eight-step evaluation framework. The book is grounded in three key assumptions: the professional development being evaluated is data-driven, research-based, and well-defined; those in charge of the professional development have the capacity to implement the learning and the evaluation; and key stakeholders intend to use the evaluation results to make decisions about the program. Corwin with NSDC, 2008

In this book of interactive essays, Dennis Sparks shows how school leaders can promote extraordinary changes, be accountable, and achieve meaningful results for schools, districts, and their personal lives. Using bold theories about education, leadership, teaching, and student learning, readers will learn how to make change happen, create usable strategies, commit to action, and achieve goals. Corwin with NSDC, 2007

B371, 264 pp. + CD-ROM, $40.00 members, $50.00 nonmembers

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Standards for Professional Learning The Standards for Professional Learning and the Innovation Configuration Maps form the foundational library for anyone concerned with effective professional learning and improved student achievement.

Standards for Professional Learning Now in its third iteration, the standards define the essential elements of and conditions for professional learning if improvements in educator effectiveness and student learning are to be realized. The latest standards represent the work of many organizations and associations. In developing this version, Learning Forward and its partners examined the latest research and practice in professional learning to create a template for professional learning. Everyone who funds, plans, facilitates, participates in, and advocates for effective professional learning should engage in reading and discussion of the standards. This work is supported in part by MetLife Foundation. Learning Forward, 2011 B512, 64 pp., $16.00 members, $20.00 nonmembers

Standards into Practice: School System Roles

Standards into Practice: School-Based Roles

Standards into Practice: External Roles

Innovation Configuration maps are designs to help guide implementation of the Standards for Professional Learning. Standards into Practice: School System Roles highlights the actions of those learning leaders in four role groups: central office, director of professional learning, superintendent, and school board. This book, like the volume for school-based roles, includes IC maps to make explicit how specific educators contribute to deep standards implementation. Learning Forward, 2013

Standards into Practice: School-Based Roles brings the latest Innovation Configuration (IC) maps for those educators working in schools each day. In this volume, find IC maps for teachers, coaches/teacher leaders, principals, and school leadership teams. This book presents IC maps with introductory material that explains the concept and use of such tools and their application to professional learning. Learning Forward, 2012

Innovation Configuration (IC) maps are essential tools for identifying the precise actions educators take to guide implementation of Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning. The third volume of Innovation Configuration maps pinpoints the actions of those learning leaders working in roles outside of schools and school systems: education agencies, external partners, institutes for higher education, and professional associations. Each volume of IC maps includes resources to understand the use of these tools and their application to professional learning. Learning Forward, 2014

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B567, 224 pp. $48.00 members, $60.00 nonmembers

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Standards for Professional Learning Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning

Learning Communities

Ann LiebeRmAn | Lynne miLLeR | PAtRiciA Roy SHiRLey m. HoRd | VALeRie Von FRAnk

Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning:




Learning Communities

Implementation

Data

Learning Designs

Michael Fullan, Shirley Hord, & Valerie von Frank

Tom Guskey, Patricia Roy, & Valerie von Frank

Eleanor Drago-Severson, Patricia Roy, & Valerie von Frank

In this volume of the series, you’ll find a thought leader essay, an inspirational case study, and detailed guidance on Learning Forward’s Implementation standard. Learn how to use professional learning as a powerful lever for long-term change, invest in human and social capital to promote schoolwide success, and connect the standards to your site-specific needs.Corwin, 2014

In this volume, the authors explore the crucial function of data for designing, implementing, and evaluating professional learning. The book’s features include: • An essay on using data in deliberate and thoughtful ways. • Specific implementation strategies that focus on analyzing student, educator, and system data and assessing progress. • A detailed case study of one district’s journey to successful use of data. Corwin, 2014

In this volume, you’ll get critical guidance on implementing and understanding the Learning Designs standard. The book’s features include: • An essay that offers a fresh take on learning designs. • Practical tools to assist readers in selecting appropriate learning designs that promote educator growth. • Examples of powerful designs for professional learning that are job-embedded, promote active engagement, and support implementation. Corwin, 2014

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Shirley Hord, Patricia Roy, Ann Lieberman, Lynne Miller, & Valerie von Frank This book is the first in a series exploring each of Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning. In this book, the authors help readers understand what it takes to establish and maintain professional learning communities (PLCs) that align with the Learning Forward standards and increase educator effectiveness in order to provide the best outcomes for students. Corwin, 2013



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A Playbook for Professional Learning: Putting the Standards into Action Stephanie Hirsh & Shirley Hord Introducing A Playbook for Professional Learning, your practical guide to facilitating professional learning in your workplace by two experts in the field. Authors Stephanie Hirsh and Shirley Hord provide examples of real problems facing educators and how to apply the Standards for Professional Learning to resolve these issues. Easy-to-follow activities for each chapter will help you and your colleagues develop the capacity to use the standards at different levels. Don’t let the road ahead take you into an educational wasteland. Use this book to move knowledge into action to benefit all students. Learning Forward, 2012 B540, 208 pp., $32.00 members, $40.00 nonmembers


In Collaboration with Corwin

Good to Great to Innovate: Recalculating the Route to Career Readiness

Leverage: Using PLCs to Promote Lasting Improvement in Schools Thomas W. Many & Susan K. Sparks-Many

Lynn Sharratt & Gale Harlid How can schools best prepare students for the highly competitive job market and global economy? This compelling book presents a transformative approach to college and career readiness within the public education system, based on data and best practices contributed by outstanding schools on five continents.

This compelling new book provides straightforward solutions for the complex challenges school leaders face. Discover how implementing a few specific high-leverage strategies, grounded in the core beliefs of professional learning communities (PLCs), can promote lasting improvement in schools.

Learn how educators—and entire school systems—can consistently support career development, helping students find rewarding paths forward. Corwin, 2014

You’ll find invaluable self-assessment forms, templates, case studies, planning examples, and more. Corwin, 2014



Designing Schools for Meaningful Professional Learning: A Guide for Educators

Opening Doors to Equity: A Practical Guide to Observation-Based Professional Learning

The Power of Teacher Rounds: A Guide for Facilitators, Principals, & Department Chairs

Janice Bradley

Tonya Ward Singer Learn how to bring team observation into the classroom to test, refine, and transform instruction so that students of all backgrounds achieve. This guide shows how to: • Create a culture of deep collaboration that closes opportunity gaps among students; • Effectively redesign instruction to reach culturally and linguistically diverse learners, using observation data and shared best practices; and • Center instructional conversations on developing students’ skills for college and career success, including hard-to-assess skills.

Vivian Troen & Katherine Boles

This breakthrough book enables education leaders to: • Work collaboratively with faculty to develop and implement a five-part plan for professional learning designed to meet your school’s unique needs. • Connect professional learning with practices that have the greatest positive effect in the classroom. • Link professional development to teacher evaluation in a manner that builds trust. • Learn best practices from schools that implemented the author’s methodology, and benefit from user-friendly strategies and tools. Corwin, 2015. B585, 192 pp., $25.60 members, $32.00 nonmembers

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This invaluable book dives into the details of implementing a successful teacher rounds program, and provides a complete and practical step-by-step plan. Readers will learn how to: • Realize the potential of teacher rounds as a strategy for Common Core implementation; • Develop rounds facilitation techniques through vignettes, video clips, and group learning exercises; and • Create positive, empowering teams that lift both instruction and student performance. This resource is especially useful for school leaders and rounds facilitators. Corwin, 2014 B575, 176 pp. $26.00 members, $32.50 nonmembers

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JSD: Idea Lab August 2014, Vol. 35, No. 4 Explore the August JSD for inspiration to fuel your professional learning. With educators just starting the school year, now is a great time to stock up on ideas and names for further study. This issue includes a focus on conference learning along with tools, news from the field, and more. J130 $16.00 members $20.00 nonmembers

JSD: Teacher Evaluation

JSD: Coaching

December 2014, Vol. 35, No. 6

Coaching is a critical element of learning implementation in schools and districts today. Explore this issue of JSD to find a range of examples of meaningful coaching at work and learn about key coaching skills and features.

The intersection of teacher evaluation and professional learning is more important than ever. At a time when schools, systems, and states are implementing new educator effectiveness processes, this issue offers essential guidance and models for pursuing a continuous improvement approach to evaluation. J132 $16.00 members $20.00 nonmembers

Best of the best Each of these volumes offers a compilation of articles published in JSD and newsletters around the most critical topics in professional learning. Learn from models and leading thinkers, and take action with practical tools.

Professional Learning for School Leaders Edited by Valerie von Frank, NSDC, 2008 B395, 225 pp., $25.60 members, $32.00 nonmembers

Creating a Culture for Professional Learning Edited by Valerie von Frank, NSDC, 2008 B382, 284 pp., $25.60 members, $32.00 nonmembers

Finding Time for Professional Learning Edited by Valerie von Frank, NSDC, 2007 B379, 183 pp., $25.60 members, $32.00 nonmembers


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JSD: Individual & Collective April 2015, Vol. 36, No. 2 Educators are demanding personalized learning specific to their needs. At the same time, years of research indicate that collaborative learning has many benefits for adult and student learners. Read this issue of JSD to explore the possibilities for combining individual and collaborative learning to meet individual, school, and system goals. J134 $16.00 members $20.00 nonmembers

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