Book of the Year award 'reflects' well on CSI director

The National Staff Development Council recently presented its 2008 Book of the Year award to co-authors Nancy Dana, COE professor and director of the Center for School Improvement, and her colleague, former COE Professor Diane Yendol-Hoppey, for their most recent collaboration. “The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities” provides strategies for integrating “inquiry” or action research and professional learning communities (PLCs)–two concepts Dana finds essential to teacher professional development. “By weaving these two processes together into one coherent professional development approach,” says Dana, “these two mechanisms can enhance each other and magnify the already powerful professional development practices occurring in many schools and districts across the country.” Dana has another book coming out this year titled “Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher,” in which she turns her reflective lens onto the role of inquiry in leadership for school principals. Click here to link with Corwin Press http://www.corwinpress.com/home.nav.