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The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities

Name: The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities
Author: Diane Yendol-Hoppey
ISBN: 9781412955805

by Diane Yendol-Hoppey, Nancy Fichtman Dana, Joellen Killion

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Overview

Combining professional learning communities and action research, this step-by-step guide provides coaches, workshop leaders, and staff developers with strategies, activities, and tools to develop inquiry-oriented PLCs.

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About the Author, Diane Yendol-Hoppey

Nancy Fichtman Dana is currently a professor of education and the director of the Center for School Improvement at the University of Florida. Under her direction, the Center promotes and supports practitioner inquiry (action research) as a core mechanism for school improvement in schools throughout the state. She began her career in education as an elementary school teacher in Hannibal Central Schools, New York, and has worked closely with teachers and administrators on action research, building professional learning communities, and school-university collaborations in Florida and Pennsylvania since 1990. She has authored numerous articles in professional journals focused on teacher inquiry, as well as a best-selling book (with Diane Yendol-Hoppey) on the action research process from Corwin Press (The Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research).

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Editorials

Bill Osman

"The reader gets to be a fly on the wall, listening as the coaches facilitate and problem solve with their groups. The authors are truly passionate about providing the reader with tools, protocols, and vocabulary to aid coaches in their role as facilitator of teacher professional learning communities."

Gina Segobiano

"Offers a new perspective on professional development that any school could implement. This book gave me ideas to share with my principals on how to get teachers to be active learners in the professional development process."

Gail Ritchie

"The book speaks to many audiences, including instructional coaches, PLC leaders, action researchersand group leaders, and university professors working with action researchers and PLCs."

Terry A. Crawley

"The stories and vignettes are very poignant and represented the concepts brilliantly. This book provides a link to the next steps in PLCs andelevates the bar of expectancy."

Roland S. Barth

"A tool box overflowing with ideas that will help every staff developer craft a school culture hospitable to adult and student learning."

Ellen Meyers

"Congratulations to Nancy Fichtman Dana and Diane Yendol-Hoppey—and to all of us who are committed to helping teachers find their voice through the development of action research studies. We now have a terrific resourcethat provides a road map for connecting teacher networks and action research to create powerful professional development opportunities.The authorsbring learning communities and teacher research to life becausethey put this work in the context of real schools and relate wonderful anecdotes of actual teachers. This book is a joy to read."