Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: Building Capacity for Schoolwide Success

Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice: Building Capacity for Schoolwide SuccessAs a school administrator, instructional coach, or teacher leader, you know that reflective teachers are effective teachers. But how can you help teachers become self reflective practitioners whose thoughtful approach translates into real gains for student achievement? In Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice a companion volume to their teacher oriented book Teach, Reflect, Learn authors Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral draw on lessons learned from

As a school administrator, instructional coach, or teacher-leader, you know that reflective teachers are effective teachers. But how can you help teachers become self-reflective practitioners whose thoughtful approach translates into real gains for student achievement?

In Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice -- a companion volume to their teacher-oriented book Teach, Reflect, Learn -- authors Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral draw on lessons learned from educators across grade levels, content areas, and district demographics to present a definitive guide to developing a culture of reflective practice in your school.

Hall and Simeral expand on ideas originally presented in Building Teachers' Capacity for Success to help you gain a clear understanding of your role and responsibilities -- and those of your teachers -- within each stage of the Continuum of Self-Reflection. Armed with the book's real-life examples and research-based tools, you'll learn how to determine the current location of all stakeholders on the continuum and how teacher-leadership activities, transformational feedback, and strategic coaching can move them forward.

The end result? A schoolwide culture that both values reflection and uses it to ensure that teachers -- and their students -- reach their fullest potential.