Former classroom teacher and principal Murray, an educational consultant and presenter on teacher learning practices, describes how school leaders can create meaningful professional development programs to create change in the classroom. He provides information, ideas, and recommendations aligned with Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning, and outlines the knowledge needed to design, implement, evaluate, and sustain professional learning, including why it is important, why conventional methods are inadequate, current models, and the characteristics of activities. He discusses the context, content, and process of professional learning, including communities, leadership, resources, data, outcomes, learning designs, and implementation; strategies involving lesson study, critical friends, school rounds, action research, mentoring, peer coaching, online professional development, and personal learning networks; and the challenges of introducing new forms of professional learning to teachers. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less