Talk About Teaching!: Leading Professional Conversations

This breakthrough work helps school leaders understand the value and power of informal conversations with instructors to promote teacher learning, improve classroom teaching, and increase learner achievement. Administrators will find ‘mental maps’ and practical tools to promote meaningful professional conversations about instructional practice. After the classroom walkthrough, this title: explains the critical function of informal professional conversations in supporting ongoing teacher learning; explores the interaction of power and leadership in schools; outlines the conversation skills needed by school leaders to conduct these pivotal conversations; and, provides guidance for initiating and leading professional conversations.