Instructional Talk Throughs: Powerful Assessment and Professional Practice describes the approach to instructional leadership and professional learning developed by three school principals. These authors and the professional staff they worked alongside set a course that used assessment for learning as both the content and process to create a model focused on learning for all.

Through the structure of instructional talk throughs, learn how these educators:

• took specific actions to ensure a safe and productive professional learning environment embedded within the classroom.

• set the stage for all learners to reflect and identify ways to feed the learning forward into their own practice.

• adopted a co-learner stance of leadership that empowered teachers to own and monitor their professional learning.

If you are interested in supporting professional learning and systemic change as a teacher leader, a professional development leader, a school-based leader, or a system leader, the authors invite you to read their account and consider the ways in which you might adapt it to work in your context.