Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders

31 Pete Hall Alisa Simeral Ellen Holmes-reviewer 2008 Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders 978-1-4166-0747-2 The authors of Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success do not sugar coat what sort of diet the teaching profession will need if it is going to get into shape, says reviewer Ellen Holmes. They are not afraid to challenge long-held notions regarding tenure, differences in teacher quality, and the measurement of success. It is the rare case that job-embedded, formative, on-going, needs-based professional development is systematically tailored towards individual teachers. Today’s teachers have more information about how students learn, how to teach, and better tools for measuring student outcomes than any other generation of professionals before them -- but there exists a significant gap between knowing and doing. In Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success, an approach for setting teachers on a healthful professional path is clearly defined.