Click here to access larger versions of the PDFs found in the book. In this insightful and hopeful depiction of the pathways that teachers take in their learning, Marjorie Larner addresses the questions heard from teachers and administrators across the country: 
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<li>What does it take to learn and practice most effective instructional strategies?</li> <li>How do we get started and how do we keep learning and improving?</li> <li>How can we get everyone on board?</li> <li>How do we know if it's working?</li> <li>How do we sustain progress and integrate with changing mandates and directives?</li> </ul> From deep and ongoing experiences in all aspects of school life, Larner presents an authentic description of both the broad picture and the specific steps-the struggles, the pathways and the possibilities-leading to ongoing classroom and school improvement. A belief that teachers need to be in charge of their own learning is at the heart of every structure, activity, and proposed plan. Both a philosophical approach and a practical how-to guide, this book is a resource for teachers, administrators, and coaches to make well-informed decisions about their own course of learning with a viable action plan to improve instruction for all children.

Pathways: Charting a Course for Professional Learning

Education & Teaching

Larner, Marjorie

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

"The real genius of this book is that it is written by teachers, for teachers. All of the authors in this book know what classrooms are like. This means that authenticity and integrity pervade every chapter in the book. Teachers will immediately sense this authenticity on their way to realizing that the book offers an endless supply of useful suggestions." -From the Coda by P. David Pearson For those of us who teach comprehension strategies, Comprehension Going Forward is as near to the ultimate PD experience as we can get. Imagine a professional learning community where you could sit in as... <ul>
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Ellin Keene and Debbie Miller swap best practices </li> <li>
Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels compare instruction across the grades </li> <li>
Anne Goudvis and Tanny McGregor share ways to infuse comprehension into every subject area </li> <li>
Cris Tovani and Nancy Commins apply the strategies to help struggling readers, English learners, and special-needs students. </li> </ul>
 In Comprehension Going Forward, you'll meet up with 17 leading practitioners and researchers for an energetic, personal, and frequently irreverent conversation on what great comprehension instruction looks like, what an amazing range of applications it has for all students, and what we can do better. Not only do figures such as Susan Zimmerman and P. David Pearson include their own chapters, but, like any exciting conversation, they point out their favorite parts of one another's chapters-highlighting discussion topics for teacher study groups along the way. Read Comprehension Going Forward and RSVP to a get-together that no one who teaches reading will want to miss. Enter this powerful, lively conversation about how we can improve all readers' comprehension today and join some of your favorite authors as they reach for a tomorrow where every child reads with deep understanding. "Each author takes the comprehension strategies as a starting point, and then reaches out toward a different set of applications, extensions, and practices. But everyone is connected by the research base on comprehension instruction and by our common goal: to provide every child in America with an "All-Access Pass" to literacy." -From the editor's introduction by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels

Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next

Daniels, Harvey "Smokey"

Keene, Ellin Oliver

Bennett, Samantha

Miller, Debbie

Harvey, Stephanie

Goudvis, Anne

Tovani, Cris

Zimmermann, Susan

Hutchins, Chryse

Pearson, P. David

Buhrow, Brad

McGregor, Tanny

Cervetti, Gina

Blauman, Leslie

Upczak Garcia, Anne

Commins, Nancy L.

Reference

Comprehension Going Forward (Print eBook Bundle): Where We Are and What's Next

Daniels, Harvey

An invaluable resource for schools working to enhance their organizational capacity to boost student learning, this book provides a framework for collaborative professional development, outlines its principles, and supplies an array of tools that help structure and support the efforts of literacy coaches, staff developers, administrators, and teacher leaders. Tools for Leaders guides faculties in identifying what they need to learn and supplies the expertise to help them meet those needs. For use with Grades K-12.

Tools for Leaders: Indispensable Graphic Organizers, Protocols, and Planning Guidelines for Working and Learning Together

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an

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