The Professional Development Schools Handbook Starting, Sustaining, and Assessing Partnerships That Improve Student Learning

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Author: Lee Teitel
Publisher: Corwin
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9780761938347
Publishing year: 2003-01-01
No of pages: 296 pages
Weight: 680 grm
Language: English
Book binding: Hardback

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Lee Teitel is Associate Professor of Masters and Doctoral level programs in Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts. Teitel has been a researcher, writer, consultant, speaker, and professional development school advocate since 1989. His work focuses on PDS start-up, institutionalization, and impact issues; new leadership roles in PDSs for teachers and principals; and the development and implementation of national standards for PDSs. He has led workshops and presentations at AACTE and AERA and written numerous articles and monographs on these topics, including two PDS literature reviews and a handbook for the NCATE PDS Standards Project and booklets on governance and documenting PDS impacts for AACTE.

This book will help PDS partners keep their focus on students' need -the core of PDS work, as they take this journey together. It provides concrete suggestions for what PDS partners can do in developing, implementing, and assessing their partnerships, which are framed by the standards and grounded in core concepts' - From the Foreword by Marsha Levine Senior Consultant for Professional Development Schools, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Washington, DC Lee Teitel's insights are incredibly on target with the issues faced by school and university staff who are now deeply engaged in PDSs. They and others like them across the country will greatly benefit from the work of the author' -V irginia Pilato, Director of Teacher Quality Maryland State Department of Education, Baltimore, MD The book is aligned with the Standards for Professional Development Schools, recently released by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). The book is organized around the five standards which are Learning Community, Accountability & Quality Assurance, Collaboration, Diversity & Equity, and Structures, Resources, & Roles. This hands-on, comprehensive guide contains a Toolkit in each chapter to take readers through the process step-by-step. The toolkit contains worksheets, inventories, writing prompts, self-assessments, activities, and short case studies with discussion questions.