Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements and Contributing Authors. Acknowledgements. Contributing Authors.- 1: Understanding How Evidence and Learning Conversations Work.- 2: Raising Student Achievement in Poor Communities Through Evidence-Based Conversations.- 3: Structuring Talk about Teaching and Learning: The Use of Evidence in Protocol-Based Conversation.- 4: Leadership for Evidence-Informed Conversations.- 5: A Cross Grade Learner Conversation.- 6: Evidence Informed Conversations Making a Difference to Student Achievement.- 7: Honey, Wooden Spoons and Clay Pots: The Evolution of a Lithuanian Learning Conversation.- 8: Learning to Think and Talk from Evidence: Developing System-Wide Capacity for Learning Conversations.- 9: Learning Conversations Stillborn: Distrust and Education Policy Dialogue in South Africa.- 10: Using Conversations to Make Sense of Evidence: Possibilities and Pitfalls.- References. Index.