Best Practices for Teacher Leadership : What Award-Winning Teachers Do for Their Professional Learning Communities

by Randi Stone

• ISBN13: 9781412915793
• ISBN10: 1412915791
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This collection chronicles the many ways in which teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
About the Authors	xiii
About the Contributors	xv
Leading Through Collaboration With Colleagues	1	(31)
Excellence in Education	1	(4)
Trudy Lund
Operation Collaboration: Or How I Survived My First Years of Teaching	5	(4)
Julie York
Professional Collaboration Within An Inclusive Classroom Setting: How to Make It Work	9	(3)
Alisia Carey
Using Staff Development to Implement a Schoolwide Reading Goal	12	(2)
Angela Judd
Statewide Teacher Training Networks	14	(4)
Angela Judd
Structured Freedom: Successful Schools Through Collaborative Learning Communities	18	(5)
Jason R. Harding
Lifelong Teaching and Learning	23	(3)
Linda Hodges
Scopes Trial and Error: A Lesson in Integrated Teaching	26	(3)
Stacey Smiar
Staff Development Initiatives Within Faculty Groups	29	(3)
Scott Hogan
Involving Community and Families	32	(32)
Pioneer Days at Bowers Elementary School	32	(2)
Christopher R. Shadle
Using School/Community Partnerships to Teach History, Heroism, and Heritage	34	(9)
Deborah Forringer
Eileen Serene
Finding Your Lost Dutchman Mine	43	(3)
Dennis Griner
The Three ``Cs'' in Education: A Classroom, a Community, and Collaboration	46	(3)
Erica Drennan
Parent Involvement	49	(2)
Jessica Galla
Let's Take It Outside: Creating a Community Learning Environment	51	(2)
Linda Keteyian
Effective Parent Involvement in the Classroom	53	(6)
Roxie R. Albrecht
Billy: Every Family Is a Special Family	59	(5)
Susan Illgen
Encouraging Hands-On Learning in Science and Technology	64	(29)
Students and Research: Using Students to Create a Science Research Program	64	(5)
Michael Corcoran
CELLLSS (Creating Experiences in Life, Learning, and Laboratory Science Skills) for Girls: Turning Middle and High School Girls On to Science	69	(5)
Michal Robinson
Voyaging Through Curriculum	74	(3)
Michelle Evans
Teaming Up for Success	77	(4)
Karen Neely
Growing Community Ties Through Gardening	81	(2)
Kristy Kidd
Online Collaboration Benefits Students and Teachers: Classrooms Across the World	83	(3)
Janet Barnstable
Education Technology: Issues, Trends, and Leadership	86	(3)
Keil Hileman
Promoting Student Interest in Life Science and Technology by Making Students Active Learners	89	(4)
Lisa Alvey
Mentoring and Sharing Professional Development	93	(27)
Give Me an ``H'': Homework Strategies	93	(4)
Charla Bunker
Team Teaching From Two Perspectives	97	(5)
Chris McAuliffe
Hillary Mason
Enriching and Extending Teaching Through Professional Conferences	102	(5)
Deidre Austen
Leading and Modeling Staff Development Initiatives Within Faculty Groups and Within the School	107	(4)
Frank Rossi
Developing Interest in Reading Strategies Inside the Teaching Community	111	(2)
Jonathan Kern
Teaching Is Not a Solitary Profession	113	(2)
Laura Partridge
Professional Development: A Life-Changing Event	115	(5)
Linda Antinone
Teaching With Passion	120	(25)
Leading Through Excitement	120	(5)
Tammy Haggerty Jones
Peeking Through My Door	125	(4)
Maria Jose De la Torre
The Music Underlying the Words: Classroom Climate	129	(3)
Diane Marie Palmer-Furman
Thank You, Mrs. Woodford	132	(4)
Diane Woodford
They Believe	136	(1)
Diane Woodford
Perception, Focus, and Attitude: Teachers Leading the Way	137	(3)
Mary Catherine Bradshaw
Accepting the Challenge	140	(5)
Nancy K. Ackerman
Empowering Students as Leaders	145	(10)
Each One, Teach One	145	(2)
Ernest Schiller
To Russia With Love	147	(4)
Evan D. Mortenson
Using Children's Books in the High School Setting	151	(4)
Rita Cannon Hovermale
Index	155