...Jane Strawhecker; Paula Thompson; Dena Harshbarger Purpose The paper aims to examine the impact of an 11-month professional development program for a small sample of Head Start preschool teachers who were part of a dyadic coaching relationship. Design/methodology/approach The paper implemented...

... of their participation in the book study groups, and an increase in their self-efficacy to facilitate literacy-related professional development. Originality/value The results showed that the use of book study groups has the potential to impact the leadership of future literacy leaders. This study capitalized...

...Kimberly Rombach; Jennie Guy Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore in-service and pre-service teachers’ experiences in a shared professional development experience called learning walks within a professional development school (PDS) model. The learning walks created opportunities...

...Jeanne M. Powers; Tipsuda Chaomuangkhong; Ashley Coughlin Purpose In this study we assess teachers' perceptions of a summer professional development experience aimed at supporting the Next Education Workforce (NEW), a teaming initiative aimed at changing how educators collaborate and respond...

...Charlene T. O'Brien; Josh Douds; Rachel Forte; Jennifer Killingsworth Purpose This article presents a professional development partnership which has grown together through collaboration resulting in increased capacity to engage mentor teachers (MTs), nurture teacher candidates (TCs), partner...

... at: lewiss@uncw.edu The University of North Carolina Wilmington's Watson College of Education (WCE) Professional Development System (PDS) is a school-university partnership (SUP) that spans across 11 school districts, a university laboratory school and two public charter schools in the southeast region...

... authored by the recipients (Knight, Dudkowski, Rojas, Zenkov and Polly) or by a nominator (Nowlin). In the case of the first four, recipients were asked to include responses related to: Teacher education Professional development Partnership Boundary-spanning Professional learning...

... teaching embedded in the Wakelet Curation Tool, a Web 2.0 tool, on fifth-grade students’ reading for comprehension, reading attitudes and perceptions of the innovation in an integrated reading class at an urban characteristic (Milner et al., 2018) Professional Development School (PDS) (National...

...Raisa Ankeny Purpose The purpose of this current research study is to provide a comprehensive description of an ongoing effort to provide quality experiential professional development through field experiences for educators at the pre-service level, referred to hereafter as teacher candidates (TCs...

... Educator preparation Innovative teaching strategies Professional development © Tiffany Hunt and Margaret Hudson 2024 Tiffany Hunt and Margaret Hudson Published in PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under...

... at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Inclusion Professional development Strengths-based pedagogy It was the beginning of March, and we found ourselves sitting together, reflecting on our slow progress on our PDS initiatives. We – Kerry, the university professor...

...Michael Cosenza; Rebecca West Burns; Bernard Badiali; Cynthia Coler; Krystal Goree; Drew Polly; Donnan Stoicovy; Kristien Zenkov Purpose This paper aims to provide details around Essential 8 of the Second Edition of the National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) Nine...

.... Findings A PDS (Professional Development School) is built upon shared, sustainable governance structures that promote collaboration, foster reflection and honor and value all participants’ voices. Originality/value Nine Essentials are foundational to PDS work. PDS members must promote...

... about leadership: There is a useful distinction between traditional “professional development” and professional learning, which is intended to result in system-wide changes in student outcomes. Professional development, which “happens to” teachers, is often associated with one-time workshops...