Lifecycles of Educators: Essential School Staff Development

Notes on this Issue

Letter from Jill Davidson, Horace editor

Feature Articles

Teachers Talking Together: The Power of Professional Community
by Linda Nathan, Boston Arts Academy

Essential Staff for Essential Schools: Horace Interviews Misha Lesley

Good Teaching Is a Conversation
by Eileen Shakespear, Fenway High School

Connecting Compensation and Evaluation to Build Professional Development
by Natalie K. Morey, Maryknoll School

Learning by Teaching: The New Teachers Collaborative
by Laura Rogers and Clare Fox Ringwall, New Teacher Collaborative at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School

From the Inside Out: Eagle Rock School Producing a New Generation of CES Teachers
by Dan Condon, Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center

Investing in Teachers for Student Success: The Teaching Fellows Program
by Amy Wendel and Ann Mantil, Capital City Public Charter School

Principled Principal Development: The Greater Boston Principal Residency Network
by Andrea Kunst, Boston Day and Evening Academy

Book Reviews

Looking Together at Student Work, Second Edition by Tina Blythe, David Allen, and Barbara Shieffelin Powell
reviewed by Jill Davidson

Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary by Bill Strickland with Vince Rause
reviewed by Jill Davidson

Resources

Where to Go for More: Resources for Essential School Staff Development

Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Organizations Featured in this Issue