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Pat Roy

Pat Roy writes about the standards for Learning Forward publications, including The Learning System and The Learning Principal. She is author of the User's Guide: Innovation Configurations for NSDC’s Standards for Staff Development (NSDC, 2007), Training Manual: NSDC's Standards for Staff Development (NSDC, 2006), and co-author of Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards Into Practice: Innovation Configurations, Vol. I & II (2003 & 2005).

This page offers links to many of Roy'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.

• Focus on NSDC's standards columns from The Learning Principal
• Focus on NSDC's standards columns from The Learning System
• Feature articles
• Books

Focus on NSDC's standards columns from The Learning Principal

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Simple steps support implementation of new strategies, The Learning Principal, Summer 2010.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: One size does not fit all, The Learning Principal, Spring 2010.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: The smart money is on learning communities, The Learning Principal, December/January 2010.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Preparing the ground for growth, The Learning Principal, November 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: A mandate for data, The Learning Principal, October 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Wanted: Instructional leaders, The Learning Principal, September 2009.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Road trip!, The Learning Principal, May 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Every child, every day, every opportunity, The Learning Principal, April 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Don't wait to find time--create it, The Learning Principal, March 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Become a Martian anthropologist, The Learning Principal, February 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Focus on the instructional core, The Learning Principal, December/January 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: I am the captain of my ship, The Learning Principal, November 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: What concerns do you have?, The Learning Principal, October 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Your choice: Minor course corrections or getting lost?, The Learning Principal, September 2008.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Community involvement: Do more and do it better, The Learning Principal, May 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: It's lonely at the top, The Learning Principal, April 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Heroic efforts: Maintain a focus on priorities, The Learning Principal, March 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Extreme makeover: Needs assessment edition, The Learning Principal, February 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: The secrets of success, The Learning Principal, December 2007/January 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Why are we doing this?, The Learning Principal, November 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: The implementation imperative, The Learning Principal, October 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Establish connection between professional development and student learning, The Learning Principal, September 2007.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Deep content knowledge: A key to quality instruction, The Learning Principal, May 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Time to learn from and with each other, The Learning Principal, April 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: You can't launch it and leave it!, The Learning Principal, March 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Trust is the on-ramp to building collaboration and collegiality, The Learning Principal, February 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Delicious irony of leadership, The Learning Principal, December 2006/January 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Ensuring quality teaching: What can the principal do?, The Learning Principal, November 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: An equitable environment creates high levels of learning for all students, The Learning Principal, October 2006.
  
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Family involvement: A far cry from room mothers and cupcakes, The Learning Principal, September 2006.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Nothing that's worth doing is easy, The Learning Principal, May 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Build the infrastructure first, The Learning Principal, April 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Let's be practical, The Learning Principal, March 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: The heart of instructional leadership: Developing quality teaching, The Learning Principal, February 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: A new role: Cultural architect, The Learning Principal, December 2005/January 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Understand, anticipate the process of change, The Learning Principal, November 2005.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Principals model data analysis to make decisions, The Learning Principal, October 2005.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Different needs require different designs, The Learning Principal, September 2005.

Focus on NSDC's standards columns from The Learning System

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Knowledge about change is key to success, The Learning System, Summer 2010.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Intentional mindfulness or mindless conformity?, The Learning System, Spring 2010.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: A time for brilliant opportunities, The Learning System, December/January 2010.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Build a bridge to implementation with data, The Learning System, November 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: More than a smile and a wave, The Learning System, October 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Do the right thing!, The Learning System, September 2009.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Does your organization really support professional development?, The Learning System, May 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Common miracles, The Learning System, April 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: The husbandry of resources, The Learning System, March 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: System leaders must know and develop others' knowledge of effective professional learning, The Learning System, February 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Focused, job-embedded learning leads to quality teaching, The Learning System, December/January 2009.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Structure influences behavior, The Learning System, November 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Navigate the fluctuating undercurrents of change , The Learning System, October 2008.
  
• Focus on NSDC's standards: What evidence do you have?, The Learning System, September 2008.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: Take advantage of technology to create two-way, family-friendly communication, The Learning System, May 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Job-embedded, collaborative principal learning, The Learning System, April 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Incentive: Encouraging or stirring up, The Learning System, March 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: A data dilemma, The Learning System, February 2008.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: What do you expect?, The Learning System, December 2007/January 2008.
  
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Research can build optimism about change, The Learning System, November 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Districts can make a difference, The Learning System, October 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Make staff development pay off, The Learning System, September 2007.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: An uncomfortable reality, The Learning System, May 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Staff development dividends, The Learning System, April 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: What evidence do you have?, The Learning System, March 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Do you foster cooperation or competition among principals?, The Learning System, February 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Everyone has a role in improving instruction, The Learning System, December 2006/January 2007.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Central office can't circumvent the influence of the principal , The Learning System, November 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Educational equity looks beyond the 'all kids can learn' slogan , The Learning System, October 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Help schools cultivate family involvement and support, The Learning System, September 2006.

• Focus on NSDC's standards: It has to be about student learning, The Learning System, May 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: The on-ramp to building learning communities, The Learning System, April 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Are new programs worthy of your time and resources? , The Learning System, March 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Central office's starring role: Developing quality teaching, The Learning System, February 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Principal development is Job One, The Learning System, December 2005/January 2006.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Understanding change process key to changing practice, The Learning System, November 2005.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Model data-driven decisions at the system level, The Learning System, October 2005.
• Focus on NSDC's standards: Increase the capacity of the system, The Learning System, September 2005.

Feature articles

• The changing role of central office staff: Administrators provide a crucial link to learning resources, The Learning System, Spring 2010, written with Joellen Killion.
• Boost the learning power of school-based staff: Innovation Configuration maps guide the way, The Learning System, September 2007.
• Innovation Configurations chart a measured course toward change, JSD, September 2004, written with Shirley Hord.

Books

• User's Guide: Innovation Configurations for NSDC’s Standards for Staff Development
  By Patricia Roy
  This 75-page guidebook is a companion to Moving NSDC’s Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations, Volumes I and II. Innovation Configurations are a tool that helps educators better understand what the standards look like in practice. Roy, who co-authored the original volumes, introduces a process that staff developers can use to introduce ICs to other educators and enable them to develop deeper understanding about the ICs and how to use them in their work.
  NSDC, 2007
  
  
• Training Manual: NSDC's Standards for Staff Development
  By Patricia Roy
  This 60-page guidebook presents a plan for a one-day workshop to introduce NSDC's standards to educators. The sessions are designed to encourage participant involvement to develop greater understanding of the standards. The slide presentation plus materials needed to conduct activities are included as PDF files on a CD-rom. This guidebook may be purchased separately or as part of the NSDC's Standards for Staff Development Trainer's Kit.
  NSDC, 2006
  
  
• Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations; Volume II
  By Shirley Hord, Stephanie Hirsh, & Patricia Roy
  The second volume of Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations builds on the work that began with the first volume published in 2003. An Innovation Configuration map is a device that identifies and describes the major components of a new practice such as the standards and details how it would look in practice. Chapters in Volume II are presented on CD-ROMs. The chapters contain information for particular contexts and professional roles. The five chapters are: the director of staff development, the external assistance provider, the institution of higher education, the professional association, and the state education agency.
  NSDC & SEDL, 2005
  
  
• Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations; Volume I
  Project Directors: Patricia Roy and Shirley Hord
  Project Leader: Stephanie Hirsh
  NSDC's groundbreaking work in developing standards for staff development has now been joined by an equally important book that spells out exactly how those standards would look if they were being implemented by school districts. An Innovation Configuration map is a device that identifies and describes the major components of a new practice - in this case, the standards - and details how it would be used in practice. The IC maps create a mental image of what each of the 12 NSDC Standards for Staff Development look like in practice when implemented by members of five different role groups - teachers, principals, superintendents, central office, and school boards. The IC maps differentiate what each role group does relative to the standards so that a rich picture of practice emerges for a school district.
  NSDC & SEDL, 2003