Professional Learning Redefined: An Evidence-Based Guide

By: Isabel Sawyer, Marisa Ramirez Stukey

You’ve just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!

Maybe you’ve run out of fresh ideas to help teachers improve their instructional practice. Maybe you need some help to feel as though your PLCs, coaching and workshops are making an impact. You’ve picked up the right book!

Isabel Sawyer and Marisa Ramirez-Stukey have studied the research on effective professional learning from the past 25 years and distilled these findings into this practical guide for the numerous roles of educators charged with supporting teachers. Readers will learn to construct a multi-year implementation framework and also

Facilitative techniques that support powerful professional learning
Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level
Functional characteristics of a successful facilitator able to combine content and context of learning
Full of protocols, strategies, and case studies, this book dissects the key components of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens.

Product details

• Grade Level: PreK-12
• ISBN: 9781544336756
• Published By: Corwin
• Year: 2019
• Page Count: 152
  
• Publication date: February 27, 2019

Isabel Sawyer is a Regional Director at Center for the Collaborative Classroom. She leads a team of educators in partnering with districts and other educational organizations across the country. In addition, Isabel presents keynotes, workshops, presentations, and professional development for teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators. Previously, Isabel worked as a lead instructional coach for Albemarle County Public Schools and as an instructional coordinator in Charlottesville City Schools, Virginia. Finally, Isabel serves as an on-line adjunct instructor at the University of Virginia. Isabel holds her PhD from the University of Virginia.

Marisa Ramirez Stukey, Ph.D., is the Chief Academic Officer for The Reading League and Content Editor for The Reading League Press. In these roles, she leads academic strategy and professional learning initiatives, while overseeing the development of high-quality content aligned with the science of reading to advance evidence-based literacy instruction nationwide.

Marisa brings more than 20 years of experience as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, higher education instructor, and national consultant. A nationally recognized expert in literacy, professional learning, and systems change, her work centers on designing professional learning systems that integrate the science of learning with effective reading instruction. She is the co-author of Professional Learning Redesigned: An Evidence-Based Guide, published by Corwin Press.

Marisa holds a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on teacher education and professional learning, as well as a master’s degree in reading education from the University of Florida.

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