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BLACKBOARD

Staff Development: the State Policy Perspective

• Professional Development for Adult Education Instructors, December 2001, by Michelle Tolbert, is available in print and online at http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/policy/development.pdf. This National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) publication provides background on professional development in adult education, summarizes the funding sources for professional development, and reviews data collected from the NIFL survey of state professional development systems. In addition, the report highlights professional development activities in four states - Kentucky, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee - and describes current and upcoming federally funded professional development initiatives and research projects.
  
  

• "Building Professional Development Systems in Adult Basic Education: Lessons from the Field," by Alisa Belzer, Cassandra Drennon, and Cristine Smith, is a chapter in The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 2, (2001), edited by Focus on Basics editor Barbara Garner, NCSALL Director John Comings, and NCSALL Deputy Director Cristine Smith. It examines how five state professional development systems were built, evolved, what has been learned along the way, how they currently work, and the challenges they face. For ordering information, click here.

Articles on Staff Development Previously Published in Focus on Basics

• Adult Basic Education and Professional Development: Strangers for Too Long
  Bruce Wilson & Dickson Corbett
  (Volume 4, Issue D, April 2001)
  
  

• Professional Development and Technology 
  A Conversation with FOB...
  (Volume 4, Issue C, December 2000)
  
  

• The New York City Math Exchange Group
  Helping Teachers Change the Way They Teach Mathematics
  Charles Brover, Denise Deagan, & Solange Farina
  (Volume 4, Issue B, September 2000)
  
  

• Guiding Improvement: Pennsylvania's Odyssey
  Cheryl Keenan
  (Volume 3, Issue B, June 1999)
  
  

• Why is Change So Hard?
  Marcia Drew Hohn
  (Volume 2, Issue C, September 1998)
  
  

• How Teachers Change
  Virginia Richardson
  (Volume 2, Issue C, September 1998)
  
  

• Facilitating Inquiry-Based Staff Development
  Jereann King
  (Volume 2, Issue C, September 1998)
  
  

• An Unexpected Outcome
  Edith Cowper 
  (Volume 2, Issue C, September 1998)