The Power of Teacher Networks [Paperback]

Develop a teacher network or grow an existing one to support new teachers, reduce teacher isolation, increase retention rates, enhance professional practice, and nurture teacher leaders.Develop a teacher network or grow an existing one to support new teachers, reduce teacher isolation, increase retention rates, enhance professional practice, and nurture teacher leaders. This book makes a most compelling case for the centrality of professional community to excellent teaching. It provides a ringing clarion call for teacher collaboration and for grounding educational policy in the real world of the classroom and the school. Part how-to manual for building teacher networks and part chronicle of the authors'?successful work, The Power of Teacher Networks sets forth a vision for the transformation of our nations schools through the development of teacher voice. Offers useful and usable knowledge that can change the way teachers work. The authors?offer specific strategies for building teacher networks to enhance student achievement. When teachers network, they become a social force for the good of society and each child in their classroom.?This book?is a must-read for anyone who cares about teaching and teacher development.
The Teachers Network, one of the most effective professional development organizations in education, has much to teach us. Ellen Meyers and her colleagues explain how supporting, connecting, and investing in teachers provides the best hope for our nations public schools. Their invaluable work, distilled to its essence in these pages, creates opportunities for teachers to work collaboratively with colleagues, to learn from one another about how to teach better, and through that professional growth to remain committed to education. The authors show us how to do it. This book is a must-read for anyonl£¼