Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: And a Good Time Was Had by All -- Part 1: What's Wrong with Professional Learning? -- Chapter 1: Accountability: Why Autopsies Do Not Improve Patient Health -- Chapter 2: Uniform Differentiated Instruction and Other Contradictions in Staff Development -- Chapter 3: The Law of Initiative Fatigue -- Chapter 4: The Myths and Realities of Planning -- Chapter 5: Mr. McGuffey Doesn't Teach Here: The Brand-Name Fallacy -- Chapter 6. Scattershot Learning: "If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Brain Research" -- Part 2: How to Create High-Impact Professional Learning -- Chapter 7: From Vision to Implementation -- Chapter 8: Focus: Teaching, Curriculum, Assessment, and Leadership -- Chapter 9: Making Action Research Work -- Part 3: How to Sustain High-Impact Professional Learning -- Chapter 10: Beyond "Train the Trainer" -- Chapter 11: Performance Assessment for Teachers and Administrators -- Chapter 12: High-Impact Learning in Action -- Appendix A: Results of a Study of School Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring -- Appendix B: Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring (PIM™) Rubric -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Related ASCD Resources -- Search this Book.