Why Can't We Get It Right?

Designing High-Quality Professional Development for Standards-Based Schools

How can we use professional development to provide the best teaching and learning opportunities for all students? 

Teachers who know their content and strategies can open a virtual toolbox and take out what they need to help all students become successful. This revised and updated edition explains how educational leaders can design, deliver, and evaluate collaborative standards-based professional development, and contains: 

• Essential questions about high-quality professional development
• Information on creating the culture for a learning community
• Conditions and processes for professional development
• Suggestions on designing your own model
• Tools for evaluating and rethinking professional development and learning
• Strategies for deepening a leader’s impact on a standards-based system