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media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY" height="238" width="292" [|Professional Learning Communities for Teaching Science]
 * Books Mentioned by Presenters:**

[|Curriculum Topic Study]- check out the site [|HERE]

[|Understanding Student Ideas in Science] Volumes 1-4 (Page Keeley's Formative Assessment Probes) [|Science Formative Assessment: 75 Strategies]...

[|The Adaptive School]- By Garmston and Wellman- a great resource for developing collaborative groups

[|Assessment Centered Teaching] Mentioned by Kathy DiRanna

[|Learning by Doing]- by DuFour and friends- a Handbook for effective PLCs

[|Data Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator's Guide to Collaborative Inquiry]

[|A Data Coach's Guide to Improving Learning for All Students]

[|Reframing Teacher Leadership to Improve Your School]- **Douglas Reeves** [|Awakening the Sleeping Giant: helping teachers develop as leaders]**-** by Marilyn Katzenmeyer, Gayle Moller [|Developing Teacher Leaders: How Teacher Leadership Enhances School Success] by Frank Crowther, Margaret Ferguson, Leonne Hann [|Leading every day: 124 actions for effective leadership] by Joyce S. Kaser, Katherine E. Stiles, Susan Loucks-Horsley [|Collaborative Teacher Leadership] by Martin L. Krovetz, Gilberto Arriaza [|How to Thrive as a Teacher Leader]
 * Books on Teacher Leadership:**

[|Allthingsplc.info] A great site for general PLC resources, research, tools, etc. You MUST check this out! [|PLC Washington] An example of how Washington State has created a clearinghouse of resources for PLC use- LOTS of great stuff here. [|North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership- DRAFT Site] This is the project Carolyn Landel is sharing: find the //Science Classroom Observation Guide// and MANY more tools for supporting Science PLCs at this site. The REAL site will launch August 17, 2009. [|WestEd] Learn more about how WestEd supports teacher leadership and science content professional development [|Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance:]Learn more about Page Keeley's work with MMSA [|Looking at Student Work site:] another site with protocols and tools for analyzing student work [|National School Reform Faculty]: Tons of great tools for PLCs on the Resources Page [|Formation Coaching & Conférences Montréal]: Private coaching in Montreal by Lyne Talbot [|Loft Conversions St Albans] [|Center for Teacher Leadership]: [|Olympic Mathematics and Science Partnership] A "spin off" of the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership devoted to increase teacher knowledge and understanding of effective collaborations. This site includes archives of grant activity for the last two years. Year one focus was on developing teacher leadership capacity for working in the Professional Teaching and Learning Cycle Lesson Study like model of PD referenced below. Many resources that support work in this cycle are listed above including: //Science and Math Curriculum Topic Study, Uncovering Study Thinking in Science Formative Assessment Probes//, and //The [|Adaptive School]//.
 * Web Sites on PLCs and Teacher Leadership:**

Do you want some tools for helping develop some of the essential skills necessary to become an effective Teacher Leader? Here are a couple: [|Teacher Leadership Skills Framework] from The Center for Strengthening the Teacher Profession**-** download the pdf
 * More Teacher Leadership Skills Resources:**

Professional Teaching and Learning Cycle**-** read a great article [|HERE] from Southwest Educational Development Lab Lesson Study: info from the [|Lesson Study Research Group]
 * Lesson Study/Learning Cycles:**

__Kathy DiRanna's PowerPoints__ __Page Keeley's PowerPoints__
 * Conference POWERPOINTS:**

A blog for multiple science education resources (from the person who started this wiki)**- [|teachscience4all]** [|Stories from School] A blog by Washington State NBCT leaders
 * Blogs:**