Joellen Killion

Joellen Killion is the deputy executive director of Learning Forward. She has been director of Learning Forward's highly acclaimed Academy and its new Coaches Academy for school-based staff developers. She also has managed numerous other pieces of work, including the council's initiatives in results-based staff development and evaluating staff development. Recent publications include Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development, 2nd edition (Corwin Press and NSDC, 2008), The Learning Educator: A New Era for Professional Learning, with co-author Stephanie Hirsh (NSDC, 2007), Innovation Configurations, Volume III: School-Based Staff Developers, with co-author Cindy Harrison (NSDC, 2007), Taking the Lead: New Roles for Teachers and School-Based Coaches, with co-author Cindy Harrison (NSDC, 2006), and NSDC's three-volume results-based What Works staff development series.

Killion regularly writes a column on NSDC's standards for the newsletter Teachers Teaching Teachers. Past columns focused on NSDC's Code of Ethics and effective facilitation practices.

This page offers links to many of Killion's articles. Use the links below to jump to different sections on this page. Note: Some of the Learning Forward articles are available to members only; login is required. Nonmembers may purchase individual JSD articles or newsletter issues.

Articles from JSD

Articles from Teachers Teaching Teachers

Articles from The Learning System

Books
  • Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development, 2nd Edition
    By Joellen Killion
    Assessing Impact was written for staff development leaders, program coordinators, principals, and others responsible for designing and measuring the impact of professional learning programs. Killion provides guidance and practical resources through an eight-step evaluation framework. The book is grounded in three key assumptions: the professional development being evaluated is data-driven, research-based, and well-defined; those in charge of the professional development have the capacity to implement the learning and the evaluation; and key stakeholders intend to use the evaluation results to make decisions about the program.
    Corwin Press and NSDC, 2008

  • The Learning Educator: A New Era for Professional Learning
    By Stephanie Hirsh and Joellen Killion
    NSDC Executive Director Stephanie Hirsh and Deputy Executive Director Joellen Killion outline eight principles to guide professional learning during the next era. If professional development decision makers adopt these principles, the authors believe they will contribute to ensuring that professional learning will improve leading, teaching, and learning. This book helps readers understand what qualifies as effective professional learning, enables them to believe that this kind of professional learning is possible to achieve, and provides a blueprint that enables thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners to join together in this crucial work.
    NSDC, 2007

  • Innovation Configurations, Volume III: School-Based Staff Developers
    By Joellen Killion and Cindy Harrison
    An Innovation Configuration (IC) map identifies and describes the major components of a new practice such as NSDC’s standards and details how it would look in practice. NSDC’s ICs are detailed by contexts and professional roles. This CD-ROM focuses on the role of school-based staff developers.
    NSDC, 2007

  • Taking the Lead: New Roles for Teachers and School-Based Coaches
    By Joellen Killion and Cindy Harrison
    This book explores the complex, multi-faceted roles played by teacher leaders and school-based coaches as well as examining district and school expectations, hiring practices, and deployment of these educators. Includes a CD-ROM with more than 200 pages of resources in PDF format plus IC maps for the school-based staff developer role.
    NSDC, 2006

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