The Book
Participants in the workshop will receive this book. Please contact the authors regarding purchasing copies of this book.
Title: The Art of Staff Development: A Resource Guide for the Site-Based Staff Development Committee
Authors: Carol Burgess and Marlys Dickmeyer
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to provide a specific process to follow for the site-based staff development committee as it directs the planning, implementation, and evaluation of site staff development activities in a way that positively impacts student achievement at the site as it enhances adult learning.
Goal: Our goal is to provide a step-by-step process for the site staff development committee to follow in order to achieve the purpose.
Content Outline:
- Membership
- Committee Norms & Meeting Procedures
- Leadership Role/Authority Parameters/Collaboration Requirements
- Communication Avenues
- Internal Communication (Faculty, Administration, Site Council, Leadership Team, School Improvement Team, School Reform Team)
- External Communication (District, Parents, Community)
- Establish a Time-Line
- Study existing documents (School Improvement Plan, School Reform Plan, Staff Development Plan, etc.)
- Review/Present Data-Student Achievement, Demographics, Staff
- Present/Analyze/Apply NSDC Standards for Staff Development (NSDC, 2001).
- Introduce Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations, Roy & Hord, NSDC, 2003.
- Administer/Compile Needs Assessment (Instructional staff, Key Site Teams, Parent/community groups)
- Choose Planning Model
- Research-Based
- Recommendaton: Backmapping Model, Assessing Impact; Evaluating Staff Development, Killion, NSDC, 2002.
- Determine Content for Staff Development
- Review/Align Student Achievement and "Needs Assessment" Data
- Access Data on Research-Based Programs
- Apply Differentiated Adult Learning Strategies
- Recommendations: "Powerful Designs", Journal of Staff Development, NSDC, Summer, 1999, and Powerful Designs for Professional Learning, NSDC, 2004.
- Implementation/Impact
- Choose Evaluation Model
- Research-Based
- Recommendation: Guskey's Five Levels of Evaluation (Evaluating Professional Development, Corwin Press, 2000)
- Prepare and Present (as needed): Site, Community, District, State, Federal
- Accountability requirements
- Management System to track ongoing implementation and evaluation
Setting
the Palette--Establishing the Committee
Creating Critical
Brush Strokes--Communicating
Choosing Hues
of Color--Planning
The
"Jurying" Process-Evaluating
Exhibiting
the "Works"- Reporting Results
Harnessing Artistic
Flair-Managing the System
© 2010 Carol Burgess/Marlys Dickmeyer.All rights reserved.