Leading Schools

  They used those to develop a professional development program that has these core beliefs:
• high-quality professional development begins with the principal;
• the principal must be part of the process, not just a facilitator;
• peer coaching is essential;
• teacher leadership is key to the program's success; and
• participants need to see the value in the content and be willing to take risks.

Learning in the Workplace surveys showed that:

• (a) people consider that informal learning is much more important, if not essential, to them than training, and
• (b) that they learn informally on a much more regular (if not continuous) basis than they learn formally.
• These findings are of course in line with study after study that shows that most learning in the workplace happens outside of formal training.