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


January 2006 | 192 pages | Corwin
Praise for Randi Stone's Best Practice collections:

"Will live up to its title and become a favored reference for any teacher, whether in a primary or public, rural or urban, or preschool through high school setting."
-Wisconsin Bookwatch, July 2004

"A priceless tool not only for teachers but also for mentors and administrators."
-Danny McPherson, Principal

West Columbus High School, Cerra Gordo, NC

"Just what the teacher ordered."
-CHOICE, November 2002

"Offers practical, down-to-earth advice."
-Letitia Abram, Media Specialist
Canal Winchester High School, OH

Join award-winning teacher leaders as they discuss their best ideas for today's professional learning communities!

Best Practices for Teacher Leadership chronicles the many and varied ways in which award-winning teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.

Join them as they share their best ideas for achieving excellence in education through staff development, hands-on learning, new technologies, mentoring, parent involvement, and more.

 
Preface
 
About the Authors
 
About the Contributors
 
1. Leading Through Collaboration With Colleagues
Excellence in Education

 
Operation (Help Me!) Collaboration: Or How I Survived My First Years of Teaching

 
Professional Collaboration Within An Inclusive Classroom Setting: How to Make It Work

 
Using Staff Development to Implement a Schoolwide Reading Goal

 
Statewide Teacher Training Networks

 
Structured Freedom: Successful Schools Through Collaborative Learning Communities

 
Lifelong Teaching and Learning

 
Scopes Trial and Error: A Lesson in Integrated Teaching

 
Staff Development Initiatives Within Faculty Groups

 
 
2. Involving Community and Families
Pioneer Days at Bowers Elementary School

 
Using School/Community Partnerships to Teach History, Heroism, and Heritage

 
Finding Your Lost Dutchman Mine

 
The Three “Cs” in Education: A Classroom, a Community, and Collaboration

 
Parent Involvement

 
Let’s Take It Outside: Creating a Community Learning Environment

 
Effective Parent Involvement in the Classroom

 
Billy: Every Family Is a Special Family

 
 
3. Encouraging Hands-On Learning in Science and Technology
Students and Research: Using Students to Create a Science Research Program

 
CELLLSS (Creating Experiences in Life, Learning, and Laboratory Science Skills) for Girls: Turning Middle and High School Girls On to Science

 
Voyaging Through Curriculum

 
Teaming Up for Success

 
Growing Community Ties Through Gardening

 
Online Collaboration Benefits Students and Teachers: Classrooms Across the World

 
Education Technology: Issues, Trends, and Leadership

 
Promoting Student Interest in Life Science and Technology by Making Students Active Learners

 
 
4. Mentoring and Sharing Professional Development
Give Me an “H”: Homework Strategies

 
Team Teaching From Two Perspectives

 
Enriching and Extending Teaching Through Professional Conferences

 
Leading and Modeling Staff Development Initiatives Within Faculty Groups and Within the School

 
Developing Interest in Reading Strategies Inside the Teaching Community

 
Teaching Is Not a Solitary Profession

 
Professional Development: A Life-Changing Event

 
 
5. Teaching With Passion
Leading Through Excitement

 
Peeking Through My Door

 
The Music Underlying the Words: Classroom Climate

 
Thank You, Mrs. Woodford

 
They Believe

 
Perception, Focus, and Attitude: Teachers Leading the Way

 
Accepting the Challenge

 
 
6. Empowering Students as Leaders
Each One, Teach One

 
To Russia With Love

 
Using Children’s Books in the High School Setting

 
 
Index

"Three cheers for this wonderful book of stories from award winning teachers who are making a difference everyday in their classrooms around the country! These remarkable teacher leaders have much to share. Involving parents, building and implementing incredible learning projects, collaborating with colleagues, nurturing the gifts that each students brings, and above all, seeing the world through the eyes of a  child, will have you wishing the stories that illustrate their 'how-to' great adventures would never end. This important book recognizes and celebrates regular classroom teachers who are performing everyday miracles. We need to spread the word about our successes! What gifted teachers! What a great read!

Candy Beal, Associate Professor, Middle Grades Education
College of Education, NC State University

"Knowledgeable advice in an engaging format. Personal essays shed light on topics important to all educators desiring to positively impact their professional communities."

Curriculum Connections, Fall 2006
School Library Journal
Key features
  • 41 stories about teacher leadership by award-winning teachers. 
  • These short and lively essays are ideal discussion starters for faculty study groups, in-service workships, and reflective journals
  • Promotes collaboration, mentoring, modeling, and shared decision making for the professional learning community

Sample Materials & Chapters

Stone Preface

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