Diane Yendol-Hoppey is the Director of the Benedum Collaborative and a Professor of Education at West Virginia University. The Benedum Collaborative is one of the oldest school/university partnerships in the nation. Diane spent the first thirteen years of her career in education teaching in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In her work at Penn State, the University of Florida, and West Virginia University, Diane focuses on job-embedded teacher professional development and the cultivation of teacher leadership. Her research explores how powerful vehicles for teacher professional development including teacher inquiry, professional learning communities, and coaching/mentoring can support school improvement. She has authored numerous studies which have appeared in such journals as Teachers College Record and Journal of Teacher Education. She is coauthor (with Nancy Fichtman Dana) of three books, The Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research: Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn through Practitioner Inquiry, The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities and The Reflective Educator's Guide to Mentoring: Strengthening Practice through Knowledge, Story, and Metaphor, all from Corwin Press.

Achieve effective, on-site teacher development without breaking the budget!
This essential guide to job-embedded staff development helps schools and districts move away from reliance on outside expertise, instead drawing on and developing the experience and skills of their own faculty. The authors provide a complete toolbox of school-based professional development (PD) strategies, with recommendations on which tools to use for different times and settings, guidelines for implementation, and extended examples of each tool in action for a full spectrum of proven, cost-effective PD models, including: Book study and lesson study
Action research and professional learning communities
Coaching and co-teaching
Webinars, podcasts, Open Space Technology, online communities, and much more

Foreword, by Stephanie Hirsh
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. What Is Powerful Job-Embedded Profressional Development, and How Can You Make It Happen?
1. Cultivating Professional Development From Inside the Four Walls of Your School
So What Is Job-Embedded Professional Development?
What Are the Building Blocks for Job-Embedded Professional Development?
An Example: What Did Mrs. Oublier Teach Us About Building Professional Knowledge That Facilitates Change?
Concluding Thoughts
Additional Resources
2. Creating Space and Reconceptualizing Roles for Job-Embedded PD: Building the Back Porch
What Exactly Is a School¿s Back Porch?
Who Is on the Back Porch? Roles and Responsibilities
What Is a Teacher Leader?
What Is the Role of the Principal?
Concluding Thoughts
Additional Resources
3. Thinking Outside the Clock and Inside the Budget: How to Find Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
Finding Time
Finding Money
How to Use Time and Money Creatively
An Example: Finding Time and Money for Job-Embedded PD
Concluding Thoughts
Additional Resources
Part II. The Professional Development Toolbox: Strategies to Actualize Powerful Professional Development
4. Book Studies, Webinars, Podcasts, and Online Video Libraries
Definition: Book Study
Definitions: Webinar, Podcasts, and Online Video Library
Illustration: From Book Study to Webinar and Back Again
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
5. Research-in-Action and Coteaching
Definition: Research-in-Action
Illustration: Research-in Action
Definition: Coteaching
Illustration: Coteaching?Lead and Support
Illustration: Coteaching?Parallel Teaching
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
6. Conversation Tools: Protocols, Open Space Technology, and the Knowledge Cafe
Definition: Conversation Tools
Illustration: Conversation Tools
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
7. Lesson Study
Definition: Lesson Study
Illustration: Lesson Study
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
8. Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
Definition: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
Illustration: Teacher Inquiry/Action Research
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
9. Coaching Models: Peer, Culturally Responsive, and Content Focused
Definition: Coaching
Illustration: Peer Coaching
Illustration: Culturally Responsive Coaching
Illustration: Content-Focused Coaching
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
10. Professional Learning Communities
Definition: Professional Learning Community
Illustration: Inquiry-Oriented PLC
What Have We Learned?
Some Things to Think About
Additional Resources
Part III. Using Your Toolbox: Tips for Developing a Successful Job-Embedded, Professional Development Program
11. Making the Match: Aligning Data and the Right Tools With Your Particular Needs
What Factors Should I Consider in the Matchmaking Process?
Illustration: Sixth-Grade Language Arts Teacher Keisha Wagner
What Is a Theory of Change, Why Do You Need One, and How Do You Get One?
Illustration: Elementary School Teacher Leader Kevin Smith
Tips for Making the Perfect Match for Professional Learning
Concluding Thoughts
12. Effective Professional Development Within Your School Walls: Lessons Learned
Ten Lessons for Making Job-Embedded Professional Development a Success at Your School
Parting Comments
References and Additional Reading
Index