This timely book offers school leaders a practical toolkit for structuring and facilitating collaborative inquiry with and about data. This resource presents a three-phase model that supports groups in discovering assumptions, promotes data-focused investigations and develops shared understandings of both problems and possible solutions. Readers will increase their confidence and skill in facilitating data-driven dialogue by applying these easy-to-follow directions for tools and techniques.

Data-Driven Dialogue A Facilitator's Guide to Collaborative Inquiry

Bruce Wellman

MiraVia

This indispensable resource for developing skillful groups includes more than 78 field-tested strategies for structuring time-efficient, task-focused meetings and work sessions. The strategies are organized by six functions reflecting the major activities that engage productive groups: 1) activating 2) assessing, goal-setting and planning 3) dialogue and discussion 4) generating ideas 5) summarizing and synthesizing 6) text and information processing

Groups at Work: Strategies and Structures for Professional Learning

Laura Lipton

Has a sticker stuck on the front cover but no highlighting or marks on the pages. Binding is not broken.

Learning-Focused Supervision

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

This is the book for anyone who embraces growth and learning as an individual and as a workplace colleague. You’ll find an introspective view of personal development and an insightful foray into the potential for influencing groups. This book offers research-based tools and templates to guide the journey towards becoming one’s best self. The book is organized by five facets of personal and professional growth: Facet #1 – Know your identity Facet #2 – Suspend certainty Facet #3 – Take responsibility Facet #4 – Engage in reciprocity Facet #5 – Build resiliency A chapter devoted to each facet defines that quality along a continuum of stages with a correlated self-assessment and exercises to stimulate insight and learning. Rich, contextual examples and anecdotes enhance the understanding and relatability of each facet and adult development as a whole. A practical resource for self-study and professional development, this book provides engaging text, web resources, and video links. Clear directions and support materials for implementing each exercise enhance the usability of this book, reduce preparation time for busy professionals, and maximize the learning potential for all readers.

Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) At Work

Jennifer Abrams

This is the book for teacher-leaders who run meetings, lead data-teams, and chair grade level and department groups. Based on over 400 interviews with teachers, teacher leaders, and their supervisors from a diverse set of U.S. and International schools, this book responds to the tensions identified by teacher facilitators and provides practical strategies and tools organized by Five Mindsets.

It’s Your Turn: Teachers As Facilitators – A Handbook

Robert Garmston and Carolyn McKanders