TQ Resources

Professional Development

Alabama’s Reading Initiative Promotes High Quality Professional Development (BestTQ Vol. 1, No. 6, Oct. 2001)

Examining the Teaching Life (An article from Educational Leadership, March 2006)

Impact of Accountability on the Professional Development of Teachers: Preliminary Evidence from Case Studies in Six Southern States (A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 2002)

Impact of High-Stakes Accountability on the Teacher's Professional Development: Evidence from the South (A final report to the Spencer Foundation, November 2003)

National Staff Development Council Standards for Staff Development (2001)

Professional Development Analysis (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, 2005)

Professional Development and School Redesign: Inextricable Links (BestTQ Vol. 1, No. 4, Aug. 2001)

Redefining Professional Development: Schools Can Become True Learning Communities for Teachers (Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, February 2006)

Teacher Quality: Teachers Teaching Teachers (an article by Linda Christensen in Rethinking Schools, Winter 2005/2006)

What Professional Development Structures Best Affect Classroom Instruction? (ASCD reports on the findings of a study from the National Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching, July 2003)

What Works in the Middle: Results-based Staff Development (by Joellen Killion)