Easy and Effective Professional Development

Catherine Beck leads a dual language International Baccalaureate elementary school in Summit County, Colorado, and is an adjunct professor at Concordia University. Paul D’Elia is the co-founder of Shelf Leadership, LLC, an organization dedicated to expanding leadership education opportunities for high school students. Michael Lamond teaches language arts at a turnaround middle school in Denver, Colorado.

• Foreword by Kevin Feldman, Ed.D. Meet the Authors. Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1: Sound Basis for Peer Observation. Chapter 2: What Does the Research Say? Chapter 3: Setting up the Program. Chapter 4: Success. Chapter 5: Keys to Communication. Chapter 6: So What About Common Core? Chapter 7: Four Years Into the Process. Chapter 8: Personal Stories of POP’s Influence. References. Appendices.

"In this timely and important book, Beck, D’Elia, and Lamond provide powerful evidence and practical solutions for the improvement of teaching. Most importantly, this is one of the very few books about teaching practices that draw a direct link between the strategies recommended and the impact on student achievement. "--Douglas Reeves, Ph.D., The Center for Successful Leadership"I am honored to provide this full-throated endorsement of Easy and Effective Professional Development in which the authors provide educators with a clear road map for improving student achievement via a pragmatic teacher professional-development process that reliably improves teaching! … Structured peer feedback using the tactics described by Beck et al is a brilliant example of what noted school change expert Michael Fullan calls ‘organized common sense.’"--From the foreword by Kevin Feldman, Ed.D., Emeritus Director of Reading & Intervention, Sonoma County Schools, and Independent Educational Consultant