TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sofman,Randi B.
AU  - Cuper,Prudence H.
TI  - Best Practices for Teacher Leadership: What Award-Winning Teachers Do for Their Professional Learning Communities
SN  - 9781483363752
AV  - LB1025.3.S755 2006 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - Corwin Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- About the Contributors -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 6 - Empowering Students as Leaders -- Each One, Teach One -- To Russia with Love -- Using Children's Books in the High School Setting -- Index
N2  - This collection chronicles the many ways in which teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods
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