PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
School factors
As instructional leaders
school administrators
policy
Address school-level obstacles to teachers’
To improve their practices
District Factors
District reforms
Fragmented
Uncoordinated
impedes voluntary participation
In professional
development
Costs
High quality professional development
Is expensive
twice the amount
Proposal
Birman, Desimone, Garet,
Porter, & Yoon, 2001).
A core community
of teacher leaders
Share their learning with others
Strengthening effective teachers
create local communities with
teachers
Purpose
may be able to assume critical leadership roles