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Diane Yendol-Hoppey

Diane Yendol-Hoppey is a professor of education in the College of Human Resources and Education at West Virginia University (WVU) and also serves as director of the Benedum Collaborative. The work of the Benedum Collaborative is focused on the simultaneous renewal of teaching and learning in public schools and teacher education at West Virginia University by establishing professional development schools and creating collaborative relationships to implement and sustain change. In her role, Yendol-Hoppey provides leadership focused on ten goals identified in the Collaborative's five-year strategic plan.

Before joining the Benedum Collaborative, Yendol-Hoppey worked at the University of Florida and Pennsylvania State University creating professional development schools. She began her career in education by spending more than a decade as a public school teacher in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Her professional interests include practicing/prospective inquiry-oriented and job-embedded professional development that strengthens both teacher leadership and school improvement.

In 2008, the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) honored Yendol-Hoppey and coauthor Nancy Fichtman Dana with the 2008 NSDC Staff Development Book of the Year award for The Reflective Educator's Guide to Professional Development: Coaching Inquiry-Oriented Learning Communities (Corwin, 2008). Written for coaches, workshop leaders, and staff developers, this outstanding resource provides strategies, activities, and tools for combining professional learning communities (PLCs) with action research to develop "inquiry-oriented learning communities."

Yendol-Hoppey is coauthor of the bestseller The Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research: Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Through Practitioner Inquiry, Second Edition (Corwin, 2009) and The Facilitator's Guide to The Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research: Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Through Practitioner Inquiry, Second Edition (Corwin, 2009). She is lead author of The Reflective Educator's Guide to Mentoring: Strengthening Practice Through Knowledge, Story, and Metaphor (Corwin, 2007).

Yendol-Hoppey's research explores how powerful vehicles for teacher professional development, such as teacher inquiry, professional learning communities, and coaching/mentoring, can support school improvement. Her research has appeared in such journals as Teachers College Record and Journal of Teacher Education.