This comprehensive and authoritative book serves as the road map to your school's professional development journey. Written for principals, professional development directors, other district leaders, and teacher leaders, Professional Development: What Works shows you how to plan and implement programs that promote teacher growth. Full of helpful case studies, useful resources, and templates, this book guides you in creating an effective, job-embedded professional development program that moves ideas to action.

Special Features in this Revised Edition:

• Revised discussion on supporting and providing learning opportunities for adults
• New "Cases from the Field" and "Notes from the Field" amplify best practices and serve to narrow the gap between research and practice
• Updated and expanded coverage of professional job-embedded learning help leaders keep pace with advancements
• Suggested readings support digging deeper into topical areas found within the chapters

Sally J. Zepeda is Professor of Educational Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia, where she teaches courses in instructional supervision, professional development, teacher evaluation, and school improvement.

What's New
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Free Downloads
Foreword
Introduction
1 Getting Ready to Champion Professional Development
2 Evaluating and Assessing Professional Development
3 Focusing on Adult Learning: Releasing the Conditions for Professional Growth
4 Framing Professional Development Efforts
5 Learning Communities
6 Job-Embedded Learning
7 Coaching in the Context of Professional Development
8 Collaborative Teacher Development: Teacher Study Groups, Whole-Faculty Study Groups, and Book Studies
9 Critical Friends Groups
10 Lesson Study
11 Learning Circles
12 Action Research
13 Portfolios
14 Are We There Yet?
References
Index