teachers

Explains how including measures of student achievement in teacher evaluations can help schools focus on meeting higher standards and describes programs implemented by four successful schools.

Provides information on how to create professional development opportunities and practices for educators that will help them better meet the needs of students, discussing teacher work concerns, the learning community, individual growth, district support, evaluation, and other topics.

Offers advice to teachers on how to supervise and develop a good working relationship with teaching assistants, explaining how to assign responsibilities, improve communications, monitor work quality, provide training, and create a feedback loop.

Explains how to better evaluate professional development in order to ensure that it increases student learning, providing questions for accurate measurement of professional development and showing how to demonstrate results and accountability.

Contains a set of six operating principles through a fictional dialogue that provides practical guidance to school leaders, including identifying core beliefs, creating a shared vision, and developing and implementing an action plan.

Describes a system designed to foster effective teacher development while respecting individual teaching styles, focusing on the basic five-stage clinical supervision sequence.

Offers teachers and administrators practical tips to help them better support the development of outstanding teacher leaders who are committed to helping their students through informal and voluntary leading efforts.

The author presents eight short stories about his mother and other family members as they grew up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.

Presents practical advice to being an effective and productive mentor and provides guidelines that will develop trust, respect, and communication between mentor and protege.