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Best Practices for Teacher Leadership
What Award-Winning Teachers Do for Their Professional Learning Communities
- Randi Stone - Educational Consultant, Keene, NH
- Pru Cuper - Keene State College, USA
January 2006 | 192 pages | Corwin
Praise for Randi Stone's Best Practice collections:
"Will live up to its title and become a favored reference for any teacher, whether in a primary or public, rural or urban, or preschool through high school setting."
-Wisconsin Bookwatch, July 2004
"A priceless tool not only for teachers but also for mentors and administrators."
-Danny McPherson, Principal
West Columbus High School, Cerra Gordo, NC
"Just what the teacher ordered."
-CHOICE, November 2002
"Offers practical, down-to-earth advice."
-Letitia Abram, Media Specialist
Canal Winchester High School, OH
Join award-winning teacher leaders as they discuss their best ideas for today's professional learning communities!
Best Practices for Teacher Leadership chronicles the many and varied ways in which award-winning teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.
Join them as they share their best ideas for achieving excellence in education through staff development, hands-on learning, new technologies, mentoring, parent involvement, and more.
"Will live up to its title and become a favored reference for any teacher, whether in a primary or public, rural or urban, or preschool through high school setting."
-Wisconsin Bookwatch, July 2004
"A priceless tool not only for teachers but also for mentors and administrators."
-Danny McPherson, Principal
West Columbus High School, Cerra Gordo, NC
"Just what the teacher ordered."
-CHOICE, November 2002
"Offers practical, down-to-earth advice."
-Letitia Abram, Media Specialist
Canal Winchester High School, OH
Join award-winning teacher leaders as they discuss their best ideas for today's professional learning communities!
Best Practices for Teacher Leadership chronicles the many and varied ways in which award-winning teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.
Join them as they share their best ideas for achieving excellence in education through staff development, hands-on learning, new technologies, mentoring, parent involvement, and more.
Preface
About the Authors
About the Contributors
1. Leading Through Collaboration With Colleagues
2. Involving Community and Families
3. Encouraging Hands-On Learning in Science and Technology
4. Mentoring and Sharing Professional Development
5. Teaching With Passion
6. Empowering Students as Leaders
Index
"Three cheers for this wonderful book of stories from award winning teachers who are making a difference everyday in their classrooms around the country! These remarkable teacher leaders have much to share. Involving parents, building and implementing incredible learning projects, collaborating with colleagues, nurturing the gifts that each students brings, and above all, seeing the world through the eyes of a child, will have you wishing the stories that illustrate their 'how-to' great adventures would never end. This important book recognizes and celebrates regular classroom teachers who are performing everyday miracles. We need to spread the word about our successes! What gifted teachers! What a great read!
College of Education, NC State University
"Knowledgeable advice in an engaging format. Personal essays shed light on topics important to all educators desiring to positively impact their professional communities."
School Library Journal
