This book is to professionals what management books are to managers. Chock full of checklists, dos and don'ts, models, assessments, worksheets and flowcharts, this is designed to help professionals: -market their skills -establish 50-50 partnerships with managers -sell their ideas and proposals -establish powerful professional roles -secure client commitment to action
Draw on and develop the skills of your own faculty to provide effective, job-embedded professional development (PD) that is based on proven strategies and cost-effective PD models.
Effective facilitation is complex What is central to leading powerful and effective facilitation in professional learning? You. Gone are the one-size-fits-all answers—instead, you’ll draw from your own knowledge and expertise to lead your PLC in actively solving complex problems that are unique to your context. For professional learning to have an improvement impact for both teachers and students, it needs to be more than a single event. Truly successful professional learning is sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused—generating multifaceted solutions to real-life, real-time issues rather than focusing on one piece of the practice puzzle at a time. This book, based on the results of a five-year research study, provides: • An innovative approach to the design and delivery of professional learning grounded in principles of adaptive expertise • Easy-to-use one-page summaries of "Deliberate Acts of Facilitation" • Guidance that’s fully congruent with Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning The current educational landscape demands a new kind of leadership. This book gives you the tools you need to apply the principles of adaptive expertise to your leadership and facilitation—enabling you to draw on your own deep knowledge to address the complex challenges you and your teachers face every day.
Effective facilitation is complex What is central to leading powerful and effective facilitation in professional learning? You. Gone are the one-size-fits-all answers—instead, you’ll draw from your own knowledge and expertise to lead your PLC in actively solving complex problems that are unique to your context. For professional learning to have an improvement impact for both teachers and students, it needs to be more than a single event. Truly successful professional learning is sustained, collaborative, evidence-informed, and student-focused—generating multifaceted solutions to real-life, real-time issues rather than focusing on one piece of the practice puzzle at a time. This book, based on the results of a five-year research study, provides: • An innovative approach to the design and delivery of professional learning grounded in principles of adaptive expertise • Easy-to-use one-page summaries of "Deliberate Acts of Facilitation" • Guidance that’s fully congruent with Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning The current educational landscape demands a new kind of leadership. This book gives you the tools you need to apply the principles of adaptive expertise to your leadership and facilitation—enabling you to draw on your own deep knowledge to address the complex challenges you and your teachers face every day.
If you are a professional working in an organization, this is the book you've been waiting for.Chock full of checklists, dos and don'ts, models, assessments, worksheets andflowcharts, this book is designed to help you:* market your skills* sell your ideas and proposals* secure client commitment to action* establish 50-50 partnerships with managers* establish powerful professional roles* make client resistance work for you.Using these skills effectively, you will experience increased impact and career satisfaction while being viewed as a valued, core member of your organization.This practical, down-to-earth, how-to book will become your constant reference. It also offers you the unique opportunity to rate yourself against the world's largest database of client/customer feedback.With this book as your Success Guide, turn your Expertise into Results!
"This much-needed handbook is an excellent resource for principals and assistant principals as they face the challenges of school improvement together. The exercises focus school leaders on building their collective strengths, expanding their learning opportunities, providing schools with strong succession plans, and enabling leadership teams to address differences while building the capacity for effective teamwork." —Sandra J. Stein, Chief Executive Officer NYC Leadership Academy Nurture the development of future school leaders through effective principal–assistant principal partnerships! Assistant principals represent the next generation of school principals, so it is critical that schools and districts address the professional development of these key administrators. In this essential resource, Gary Bloom and Martin L. Krovetz demonstrate how principals and assistant principals can use their collaborative relationships to prepare assistant principals for future leadership roles. This resource views the partnership between principals and assistant principals as a coaching-based relationship that benefits students and schools. Through this apprenticeship approach, assistant principals receive the mentoring and support they need to become tomorrow′s school leaders, and principals benefit from a more effective leadership team. The authors offer discussion questions, activities for the assistant principal, and shared activities that help principals and their assistants to: Develop a shared vision for their relationship and their school Design a plan for communication and professional development Build assistants′ skills in school management, instructional leadership, and personnel management Addressing a critical yet frequently neglected topic, Powerful Partnerships helps principals mentor assistant principals, promote their professional development, and prepare them for challenging new positions in the future!
This volume brings together an international set of contributors in education research, policy and practice to respond to the influence the noted academic Professor Michael Young has had on sociology, curriculum studies and professional knowledge over the past fifty years, and still has on the field to this day. It provides a critical analysis of his work and the uses to which it has been put in the UK and internationally, discussing implications for debates on the purpose of education and how school curricula, as well as programmes in other educational settings, could be run and teaching undertaken, based on his contribution. Following Michael’s long and distinguished career – dating back to before Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education, which Michael edited in 1971 – recent years have seen an upsurge in both academic and policy interest in his work, including the new concern he expressed for knowledge in his 2007 book Bringing Knowledge Back In. The book concludes with an appreciation and a response to the authors from Michael Young and a Coda from Charmian Cannon, who was on the Institute of Education panel that appointed Michael to his post in 1967. This timely book is a unique critique and celebration, written by experts whose own careers have been affected by Michael, and will appeal to all those with an interest in the work of Michael Young.
“An instruction manual for developing your personal brand and then leveraging that brand to command your career” by the New York Times bestselling author (New York Post). From Dan Schawbel, Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the man the New York Times calls a “personal branding guru,” comes a guide detailing how to survive the modern job hunt and thrive in the digital age. Packed with expert insights and concrete, step-by-step instructions to create and maintain one’s personal brand, Me 2.0 shows potential job-hunters how to use digital media and social networks to find job opportunities and careers based on their passion and experience. For those on the edge of starting their career or trying to catch up fast, Me 2.0 offers practical, straightforward advice for driven jobseekers looking for an edge in a fast-paced work environment. “A comprehensive guide for leveraging the big three social media features: LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter . . . This is a must-read for those who want to create a powerful persona that truly separates them from the competition amidst the war for talent.”—The Washington Post, “Summer Reading List for Business Leaders” “An easy, thought-provoking read and recommended for anyone who may find themselves back on the job market with only a paper resume as a calling card.”—Entrepreneur “Contains practical ways of harnessing online tools to professional advantage.”—Financial Times “You can read it cover to cover for a comprehensive guide to branding in this social media age or you can simply access the section you need in the moment.”—FoxBusiness.com
