Individualizing Professional Development: A Framework for Meeting School and District Goals - Softcover

Husby, Dr. Vicki R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412909422 ISBN 13: 9781412909426

Publisher: Corwin, 2005

Synopsis

Husby provides a job-embedded professional development process that satisfies both individual needs of teachers and organizational demands for academic improvement.

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About the Author

Vicki Husby is a curriculum specialist and instructional coach with Walton County Schools in Georgia. She is a former daycare teacher, public school teacher, assistant principal and assistant professor of "Supervision of Instruction" at the University of Georgia. She received her Ed.D. at the University of Georgia in educational leadership after studying teachers’ experiences with self-directed staff development. She holds educational credentials in elementary education, middle grades education, gifted education, special education and educational leadership. Her areas of expertise include professional development and teacher development, academic interventions, and program development. Her professional experience has been shaped by teaching and leadership roles at middle school, high school, district office and university levels.

Dr. Husby was selected as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s 2000 Honor Teacher for her work with middle grades at-risk students. She is the editor and a co-author of the annual Teacher’s Guide for O,Georgia Too: An Awesome Collection of Original Writings by Young Georgians. Her non-fiction narrative, "Like Mother", was published in O,Georgia: A Collection of Georgia’s Newest and Most Promising Writers, Volume 3.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412909422
• ISBN 13: 9781412909426
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176