School Change and Improvement
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Leading Professional Learning Communities:
Voices from Research and Practice
(2007) The book illustrates how professional learning communities (PLCs) can help increase leadership capacity, embed professional development in daily work, create a positive school culture and develop accountability. But it also addresses how to manage the conflict that arises, the creativity needed for problem solving, and the courage to challenge existing systems and ways of thinking when necessary. |
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Measuring Implementation in Schools:
Using the Tools of the Concerns Based Adoption Model
(2006) The Concerns-Based Adoption Model, or CBAM, is a conceptual framework that describes, explains, and predicts probable teacher behaviors throughout the school change process. |
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101 More Questions & Answers about Standards, Assessment, and Accountability
(2004) A follow-up to 101 Questions, this book extends the conversation on accountability, standards, and assessment and includes discussions of Power standards, grading, and writing to improve student achievement |
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101 Questions and Answers about Standards, Assessment, and Accountability
(2001) This reference book provides clear answers to commonly asked questions about the most pressing issues in education. |
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Correlates of Successful Implementation and School Change: An Annotated Bibliography
(2000) This bibliography contains valuable references pertaining to the topics of change and implementation in schools, as used in the development of a survey instrument by SEDL's "Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration" project. |
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Improving Classroom Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Staff Developers, Toolkit 98
(1998) This two-volume resource for trainers contains findings and approaches to blending assessment with instruction to improve student learning. |
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Making Assessment Work for Everyone: How to Build on Student Strengths
(2000) This publication provides teachers with research information and practical ideas for modifying assessments to make them more effective. |
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A Trainer's Companion: Stories to Stimulate Reflection, Conversation, Action
This collection of stories offers leaders and trainers opportunities to work with staff members to develop new perspectives on old problems and provide innovative, alternate ways of seeing issues and challenges. |
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Being a Successful Principal: Riding the Wave of Change Without Drowning
This book, written by principals for principals, covers a variety of topics including trust, change, assessment, and mediating. |
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Beyond the Numbers: Making Data Work for Teachers & School Leaders
(2005) In this book, Dr. White describes the foundation principles for data analysis and provides the strategies needed to take action based on that analysis. |
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Energizing Staff Development Using Film Clips: Memorable Movie Moments That Promote Reflection, Conversation, and Action
This book discusses television and film clips that staff developers can use to encourage discussion and reflection on pertinent common themes. |
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Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and Potholes 2nd Edition
(2005) This 2nd edition book focuses on how school leaders can understand, evaluate and facilitate the change process by presenting a number of research-based models and tools along with examples of how each can be used to facilitate the change efforts. |
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Leadership for Changing Schools
(2000) This updated kit provides seven training modules that engage participants in a variety of activities, discussions, and readings. |
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Living on a Tightrope: A Survival Handbook for Principals
This handbook of activities helps principals to reflect and analyze how they react in typical situation they face daily. |
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Manual for Assessing Open-Ended Statements of Concern about an Innovation
This manual equips you with procedures for analyzing and understanding teachers' concerns when presented as open-ended statements. |
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Measuring Change Facilitator Stages of Concern: A Manual for Use of the CFSoC Questionnaire
This book is for use with change facilitators such as principals, staff developers, and teacher leaders who have concerns that are identical in dynamics to those on the front-line of educational innovation. |
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Measuring Implementation in Schools: The Stages of Concern Questionnaire
(2006) This updated SoC manual explains how to use and score the SoC Questionnaire and includes a CD-ROM scoring device. |
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Measuring Implementation in Schools: Levels of Use
(2006) This updated manual discusses behaviors and how individuals react with respect to specific change. |
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Measuring Implementation in Schools: Innovation Configurations
(2006) This updated manual describes Innovation Configurations and how to use an Innovation Configuration Map to clarify what an innovation or change looks like along a continuum. |
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Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement
(1997) This publication includes stories and reports of research on how school professional staff - teachers and principals - organize as a learning community. |
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Professional Learning Communities: An Ongoing Exploration
(2000) This book provides a review of the five dimensions along which a school staff should operate in order to become a learning community and discusses the role such a community can play in school reform. |
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Professional Learning Communities (PLC) Publications Bundle
(2000) These publications includes stories and reports of research on how school professional staff - teachers and principals - organize as a learning community and a review of the five dimensions along which a school staff should operate in order to become a learning community and discusses the role such a community can play in school reform. |
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Show Me the Proof!: Tools and Strategies to Make Data Work for You
(2005) Show Me the Proof!, a companion handbook to Beyond the Numbers, is designed to offer practical, user-friendly tools and strategies to apply the right tools of analysis to the right data for the right purposes. |
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Strategies for Success: Implementing a Comprehensive School Reform Program
(2000) This book discusses the six strategies of successful implementation of a comprehensive school program and provides tips from experts. |
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Taking Charge of Change
(2005) A cornerstone in the school change literature for educators, this book provides concepts, tools, and techniques they can use to facilitate school change and improvement programs. |
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Learning Together, Leading Together: Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities
(2004) This book presents a clear definition of the professional learning community and offers practical advice from schools that have successfully modeled or are creating professional learning communities. |
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Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations
(2003) This book provides Innovation Configuration (IC) maps for NSDC's 12 professional development standards. |
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Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations (Volume II CD-ROMs - set of five)
(2007) This five CD-ROM set provides Innovation Configurations maps for higher education institutions, state education agencies, professional associations, external assistance providers, and directors of staff development of school systems. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations Volume II - Institution of Higher Education
(2007) This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for higher education institutions. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations Volume II - State Education Agency
(2007) This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for state education agencies. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations Volume II - Professional Association
(2007) This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for professional associations. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations Volume II - External Assistance Provider
(2007) This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for external assistance providers. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations Volume II - Director of Staff Development
(2007) This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for directors of staff development of school systems. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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Standards for Staff Development: Revised Edition
(2001) This book provides the vision and framework for making staff development more responsive to the learning needs of educators and students. |
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Flashlight and a Compass: A Collection of Tools to Promote Instructional Coherence
(2000) This kit is a set of resources for facilitators assisting groups of educators in becoming more reflective about their practice, to make instructions based on student learning, and to create a more coherent learning experience for students. |
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Lesson Study: Teachers and Students Learning Together
(2005) This multimedia package was designed for professional development providers, educational group facilitators, and other educational professionals who want to introduce Lesson Study as a process for improving teachers' content and pedagogical knowledge. |
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Lesson Study DVD
(2005) This 27-minute lesson study video documents implementation of one lesson focusing on direct variation. |
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Reflective Practice to Improve Schools: An Action Guide for Educators
This book offers a roadmap for reflective practice that presents research-based information and ideas and strategies for engaging in reflective practice. |
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Renovar el Sentido de la EnseÒanza
(1999) Este folleto anima a profesores a recordar por qué se hicieron profesores en primer lugar, y después ayuda a cambiar sus pr‡cticas para hacerlas m‡s significativas para sus estudiantes y el aprendizaje de ellos. |
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Restoring Meaning to Teaching
(1999) This booklet engages teachers in recalling why they became teachers in the first place, and then changes their practice to make it more meaningful for children and their learning. |
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students – and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors. |





































