Enhancing community well-being through partnerships in education

The Effective Instructional Strategies (EIS) Series is a collection of six booklets based on the components used in Pacific Communities with High-performance In Literacy Development (Pacific CHILD), a principles-based professional development program consisting of research-based teaching and learning strategies proven to help improve students’ reading comprehension using informational text.
Growing Professionally by Jennifer F. M. Padua provides strategies for job-embedded professional development based on teachers’ needs, which is important to support teachers’ growth. Practitioners learn how school-level activities, principles of adult learning, and key findings from research can be implemented to design a professional development program at their school.
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