Connect inquiry to improved teaching and learning across your district!

Now that federal and state initiatives require school districts to provide job-embedded professional development, the next step is making it happen. This book helps districts define, develop, and implement a systematic inquiry-based process with a laser-like focus on both adult and student learning. This book's inquiry model challenges educators and students to:
Define questions they are passionate about exploring
Collect and analyze data to inform their questions
Share what they have learned through the process with others
Collaborate to build on their results and improve student achievement

List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Preface
Introduction
Part I. For the Administrator
1. The Principal Professional Learning Community
2. The Principal Professional Learning Community in Practice
Part II. For the Teacher
3. The Inquiry-Oriented PLC
4. The Inquiry-Oriented Learning Community in Practice
Part III. For the Student
5. Introducing Inquiry Into the Classroom
6. Student Inquiry in Practice
Part IV. For the Professional Developer
7. The Importance of Coaching
8. Developing a District-Wide Cadre of Coaches
Conclusion

Nancy Fichtman Dana is currently professor of education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She began her career in education as an elementary school teacher in Hannibal Central Schools, New York. Since earning her PhD from Florida State University in 1991, she has been a passionate advocate for teacher inquiry and has worked >extensively in supporting schools, districts and universities in implementing powerful programs of job-embedded professional development through inquiry across the United States and in several countries, including China, South Korea, Belgium, Portugal, The Netherlands, Slovenia, and Estonia. She has published ten books and over 100 articles in professional journals and edited books focused on her research exploring teacher and principal professional development and practitioner inquiry. Dana has received many honors, including the Association of Teacher Educator's Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award and the National Staff Development Council (now Learning Forward) Book of the Year Award, both honoring Dana and Yendol-Hoppey's work related to practitioner inquiry.