Kirjahaku

A practical guide to team collaboration and learning that improves student results. Why is it critical to educate students as a collaborative, data-driven teaching team? Because student achievement levels are directly linked to the collective efficacy of all their educators. Collaborating as a teaching team is one of the most important keys to improving student results. In PLC-Powered Data Teams, authors Polly Patrick and Angela Peery reveal the vital links between team-based collaboration and student success, meaningful reflection, and ongoing innovation. The authors provide practical tools and insights into the pivotal role that teams play in educators' ability to help students grow, learn, and flourish. Discover useful tools and checklists as well as short vignettes of successful Data Team practices and protocols. Let PLC-Powered Data Teams help you reconnect with your passion for education, collaboration, and seeing your students thrive.

Designed for co-teachers to use together, this hands-on guide includes real-life stories; reflective activities; reproducible lists, checklists, templates, and agreements; and a downloadable unit-planning tool.

Creating Effective Presentations: Staff Development with Impact presents a comprehensive approach to creating compelling, interactive staff development sessions. The book is highly practical, summing up important research in the field of visual communication, graphic design, and presentation skills as they apply specifically to those who teach and coach their fellow educators. In short, conversational chapters that include real-life examples, Peery gives quick lessons on planning each aspect of a resonant presentation. This book is filled with basic tips about making PowerPoint software work better for you and delivering a succesful presentation. If you do more than a few presentations a year for other adults who are involved in education—and you want your ideas to "stick" like never before—then this book is a must-read!

Creating Effective Presentations: Staff Development with Impact presents a comprehensive approach to creating compelling, interactive staff development sessions. The book is highly practical, summing up important research in the field of visual communication, graphic design, and presentation skills as they apply specifically to those who teach and coach their fellow educators. In short, conversational chapters that include real-life examples, Peery gives quick lessons on planning each aspect of a resonant presentation. This book is filled with basic tips about making PowerPoint software work better for you and delivering a successful presentation. If you do more than a few presentations a year for other adults who are involved in education—and you want your ideas to "stick" like never before—then this book is a must-read!