Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities - Softcover

Hollins-Alexander, Dr. Sonja

 
9781452276663: Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1452276668 ISBN 13: 9781452276663
Verlag: Corwin, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Create a 21st-century professional development program!

Can online learning deliver high-caliber professional development (PD) with lower costs? This timely book shows you how, and the answer lies in combining well-designed online instruction with the energy of peer-to-peer collaboration. Sonja Hollins-Alexander writes from her own experience building a successful online professional development program for a large urban district. Readers will find:

  • Research-based support for online PD and the learner-learner model
  • A thorough planning guide and ten action steps for program development
  • Best practices for managing staffing and resources
  • Strategies for establishing virtual learning communities that thrive

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sonja Hollins-Alexander is the associate vice president, content advisor, and scholar for Corwin Publishing. She has been in the field of education and publishing for thirty years with sixteen of those being in educational leadership at the school, district, and higher education levels, and eight of those being in educational consulting and publishing. During this time, she has served as a school social worker, teacher, assistant principal, principal, coordinator, director of professional learning, and chief of staff, serving in two Metro Atlanta, Georgia, school districts. She continued her profession beyond K-12 as a senior consultant for professional development firms and independently. She has also served on numerous United Way nonprofit boards and served as the board president for Learning Forward Georgia and as a member of the National Affiliate Leadership Council for Learning Forward.

Through her professional journey, she has had experiences in strategic planning, policy development, stakeholder communication and engagement, instructional and curriculum design, facilitation of adult learning strategy, executive leadership coaching, and conference fFacilitation and design, and has served on numerous quality assurance teams with Cognia school accreditation and certification organization. She is a Corwin author of Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities and coauthor of Collective Equity.

Sonja holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in social work, a teaching certificate in middle grades language arts, a specialist's degree in educational administration and leadership, and a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction. She is committed to partner engagement and implementation of evidence-informed sustained professional learning services that positively impact teaching and learning-not by chance but by design.

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A hands-on guide to school leaders who wish to enact high-powered, system-wide professional learning experiences leading to enhanced collaboration.

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Verlag
Corwin
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1452276668
ISBN 13 
9781452276663
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
116
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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