Lisa Ain Dack – författare

Vägen framåt för svensk skola ligger till stor del i kollegialt lärande. Men i utvecklingsarbetet kring kollegialt lärande är det ibland svårt att komma vidare och få till verklig förändring.

Professionsutveckling & kollegialt lärande – framgångsfaktorer och utvecklande motstånd svarar på just dessa frågor. Boken ger lärare och rektorer konkret hjälp med det komplexa skolutvecklingsarbetet och innehåller en mängd användbara verktyg och strategier.

We interrupt this program to bring meaningful, conceptual change to your team's professional learning!

If you're involved in professional learning, you know that big ideas can sometimes get stuck on the way to becoming real change. Steven Katz and Lisa Ain Dack explain the secret to getting unstuck: interrupting the status quo of traditional activity-based professional development to help educators embrace permanent changes in thinking and behavior. They outline a process—grounded in psychological research—for real professional learning that ultimately leads to improved student achievement.

You can enable true learning by

Illustrated with concrete, school-based examples drawn from real practice, Intentional Interruption shows how rethinking professional learning can lead to the development of a real and sustainable learning culture in your school.

"Few books challenge your thinking of a field to this degree. The authors reveal the secret key to unlocking true professional learning and thus impact for students."—Terry Morganti-Fisher, ConsultantLearning Forward

"Before your learning team goes much further, it needs to stop, read, and collectively reflect on these insights. This book will identify those sticky challenges and how you can optimize your joint work."—Mag Gardner, Superintendent of Student AchievementHamilton-Wentworth District School Board, ON

Jump start your roles as “learning leader” and “lead learner!”

Designed for leaders to learn and lead within the “middle space” between the seemingly opposing dynamics of district expectations and practitioner experience, this book advances the concept of the school as a learning organization. This innovative perspective guides leaders through an intentional, deliberate learning process to develop intelligent, responsive leadership practice. Using stories, strategies, and tools, the authors

"This important work demonstrates and reinforces the idea that continuous improvement can only come from deep, intentional, focused, and hard work on the part of everyone within an organization. While the examples are rooted within schools and school districts, this work is applicable to any organization that seeks meaningful and specific improvement in their results. This is a must-read for leaders!"

—Lynn Macan

University at Albany - SUNY, Albany, NY