Professional Development

The New York City DOE's School Library Services department has purchased over 170 ebooks for citywide use. They cover a wide variety of professional learning topics and other academic topics. These books can be read online, downloaded, emailed or recorded on an MP3 player along with other features.

GALE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - USE THIS LINK to access these books. No password is necessary if you are accessing them from a DOE computer, however, if you are not, the required password is book123. This collection of eBooks has been aligned to the Danielson Rubric with the assistance of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness. You can download chapters, share them, edit them as a Google Doc, listen to them as an MP3, among many other options. For supporting individualized professional learning, these books are powerful tools to consider with over 150 to choose from.