{"product_id":"9781412979757","title":"Powerful Professional Development","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I love, love, love this book! This smorgasbord of professional development strategies maximizes time and on-site expertise. From the perspective of educators hungry for cost-effective, proven ways to promote ongoing, job-embedded professional learning, this is an a la carte menu for building healthy professional development 'meals' based on specific needs and available resources.\" -Gail Ritchie, Instructional Coach Fairfax County Public Schools, VA  \"This book offers a menu of practical, integrated, research-based tools and processes that engage and empower teachers and administrators in co-constructing a powerful form of job-embedded professional development that is relevant, focused, and organic, and allows schools to transform themselves into a self-sustaining learning organization.\" -Pedro R. Bermudez, Professional Development Support Ready Schools Miami, FL  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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CORWIN PRESS INC.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43415139876909,"sku":"9781412979757","price":86.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/1298\/2317\/files\/9781412979757.jpg?v=1782635249","url":"https:\/\/lioncrest.com.au\/products\/9781412979757","provider":"Woodslane Education","version":"1.0","type":"link"}