in-service training

Explains formative assessment, discusses common misconceptions about it, and provides strategies for using it in the classroom.

Provides 152 suggestions for educators to prevent students from dropping out, and covers student learning, professional growth, family and community involvement, and school safety.

Discusses the need for new forms of staff development as an integral part of school reform, and examines the ways in which the ideas of results-driven education, systems thinking, and constructivism are shaping professional development methods in the educational setting.

Presents information on school support teams, providing an overview of the schoolwide approach to change and the role of support teams, and offering suggestions on how to organize, utilize, and maintain a system of school support teams, and train team members.

Examines differentiated supervision, in which teachers receive options regarding their own supervision and evaluation; discusses the system's rationale, its developmental and evaluative options, and how to develop a differentiated model for one's own school.

Discusses the importance of training, supporting, and retaining new teachers, presents a step-by-step process for structuring an induction program, and features a list of replicable induction programs.

Presents over one hundred tips for new teachers and their mentors, grouped in the categories of classroom management, planning, instruction, professionalism, motivation and rapport, and a teacher's influence.

Offers advice on how to create staff development programs that measurably improve student achievement,and includes case studies of successful programs, data from related research, and concept illustrations.

An introduction to Performance-Based Supervision and Evaluation that explains how the data-driven and teacher-directed approach can be used to build educators' analytical and instructional capacity to address the needs of their students.