{"product_id":"effective-professional-development-schools-isbn-9780787945626","title":"Effective Professional Development Schools","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes a chapter by John I. Goodlad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dick Clark presents a comprehensive and vital view of the role that professional development schools bring to today's educational renewal efforts. He offers valuable insights and thoughtful perceptions about the realistic potential that a quality professional development school can bring to learning at manylevels.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRichard C. Kunkel\u003c\/b\u003e, Wayne T. Smith Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership and dean, College of Education, Auburn University; executive director, The Holmes Partnership\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book draws on years of watching the development of professional development schools and provides tools, critical lenses, and models for our consideration. It will help all of us involved reach toward the full potential promised by these schools.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePatricia A. Wasley\u003c\/b\u003e, dean, Graduate School of Education, Bank Street College of Education\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book balances advocacy and skepticism and offers an excellent walk-through of the most important issues facing professional development schools.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLee Teitel\u003c\/b\u003e, co-facilitator, Massachusetts PDS Network\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume in the \u003ci\u003eAgenda for Education in a Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e series explores the expanding popularity of professional development schools and their role in educating teachers and promoting school improvement. \u003ci\u003eEffective Professional Development Schools\u003c\/i\u003e describes the criteria for establishing quality professional development schools, the policies and financial arrangements needed to sustain them, and ways to evaluate their progress. In addition to thirty years' experience as a teacher and administrator in public schools, Richard W. Clark has fifteen years' experience working with school-university partnerships and professional development schools. He offers numerous case studies and examples of successful professional development schools, as well as school selection standards, sample joint agreements, checklists, and other valuable tools. Along with Clark's insights regarding professional development schools, this book includes a new essay from John I. Goodlad addressing the challenges of school-university partnerships. The book is a practical guide for teacher educators and school administrators who want to develop joint programs on teacher professional development. Beyond this practical advice, \u003ci\u003eEffective Professional Development Schools\u003c\/i\u003e explores some of the key concepts that need to be considered by school and university-based educators as they work together in professional development school settings.\u003c\/p\u003e Introduction: Definition, Description, and Benefits of aProfessional Development School (PDS).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cultivating the Fabric: Conditions in Creating a PDS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cutting the Cloth: Forging a Common Educational MissionSimultaneously Renewing Schools and Teacher Education: Perils andPromises, John I. Goodlad.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The First Layer of Clothes: Processes in Creating a PDS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Style, Not Fad: Essential Qualities of an Effective PDS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Keeping the Britches Up: PDS Costs and Financing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ensuring That There Really Are Clothes: Evaluating a PDS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lead On: The Leadership Imperative. \"Dick Clark presents a comprehensive and vital view of the rolethat professional development schools bring to today's educationalrenewal efforts. He offers valuable insights and thoughtfulperceptions about the realistic potential that a qualityprofessional development school can bring to learning at manylevels.\" (Richard C. Kunkel, Wayne T. Smith Distinguished Professorof Educational Leadership and dean, College of Education, AuburnUniversity; executive director, The Holmes Partnership)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This book draws on years of watching the development ofprofessional development schools and provides tools, criticallenses, and models for our consideration. It will help all of usinvolved reach toward the full potential promised by theseschools.\" (Patricia A. Wasley, dean, Graduate School of Education,Bank Street College of Education)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This book balances advocacy and skepticism and offers an excellentwalk-through of the most important issues facing professionaldevelopment schools.\" (Lee Teitel, co-facilitator, MassachusettsPDS Network) \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRICHARD W. CLARK\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior associate at both the Center for Educational Renewal, University of Washington, and the Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle. 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