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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction | |
Professional Growth: Defining the What, Why, Who, and How What Is Professional Growth? | |
What Is a Professional Growth Plan? | |
What Is the Professional Growth Plan Process? | |
Why Use the Professional Growth Plan Process? | |
Who Can Use a Growth Plan? | |
Who Can Lead the Professional Growth Plan Process? | |
How to Implement the Professional Growth Plan Process Successfully Encouraging New Traditions in Professional Growth | |
Managing the Professional Growth Plan Process Operational Issues Allocating Resources Available Resources vs. Needs? | |
A Balancing Act Who Has the Time? | |
Organizing People, Events, and Information Forms? | |
How Can They Help? | |
Introducing the Process to Staff The School Leader as Coach and Advisor | |
Identifying Areas for Professional Growth | |
The First of Four Phases Targeting Professional Growth | |
Conducting a Personal Needs | |
Assessment Comparing Current Practices to Established Professional | |
Performance Standards/Best Practice | |
Research Review and Understand Professional Performance Standards and Best Practices Research | |
The Self-Assessment Activity Examining Relevant Student Performance | |
Data Facilitating Data Analysis Linking Practice and Performance | |
Addressing Deficiencies and Discrepancies Needs | |
Assessment and the School Leader The Needs | |
Designing the Professional Growth Plan The Second Phase: Plan Design Guiding the Design Process Establishing Professional Goals Establishing Learner-Centered Goals Can Goals Change? | |
Establishing the Questions Creating the Essential Question Creating Related Questions Designing an Action Plan Identifying Modes of Documentation Documentation: A Product and a Process Identifying Baseline Data Defining Methods of Evaluation Identifying Resource Needs Choosing a Method for Sharing Results With the Learning Community Finalizing the Growth Plan | |
Professional Growth Plans in Progress Implementation and Monitoring Monitoring the Process Formal Monitoring: Progress Meetings Informal Monitoring: Listening, Watching, Visiting Deciding What Is Not Working and Why Interim Sharing: What Has Happened so Far? | |
Troubleshooting? | |
What Happens If. . . . Preparing for the Final Phase | |
Completing the Growth Plan Process Plan Evaluation Growth Plan Summary Activities Summarizing the Growth Plan Experience? | |
What Happened? | |
The Growth Plan Summary Conference Evaluating Documentation of Professional Growth Sharing With the Learning Community Wrapping Up the Professional Growth Plan Process | |
The Process Continues Second Generation Plans and Beyond Impediments to the Process Changes in Personnel Inconsistent | |
Implementation Lack of Administrative Support | |
The Demands of Compliance Directives and Documentation | |
The Professional Growth Plan Process Is School Improvement | |
The School Leader as Mechanic and Change Agent | |
School Leader Blacklines | |
Participant Blacklines | |
References | |
Index | |
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