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9780807744116

Learning Together, Leading Together : Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807744116

  • ISBN10:

    0807744115

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-12-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr

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Increasingly the education world is recognizing that the development of learning communities is an effective means for improving schools without increasing the budget or adding new programs. This indispensible volume offers practical advice gathered from 22 schools (elementary, middle, and high schools) that have successfully modeled or are creating professional learning communities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
1. Introduction
1(4)
Shirley M. Hord
2. Professional Learning Communities: An Overview
5(10)
Shirley M. Hord
3. Study Description: Investigating Five PLC Schools
15(5)
D'Ette Cowan, Grace L. Fleming, Tara Leo Thompson, and Melanie s. Morrissey
4. Principals and Teachers as Continuous Learners
20(11)
Grace L. Fleming
5. The Role of Trust Building and Its Relation to Collective Responsibility
31(14)
Grace L. Fleming and Tara Leo Thompson
6. Creating and Sustaining a Professional Learning Community: Actions and Perceptions of Principal Leadership
45(13)
Melanie S. Morrissey and D'Ette Cowan
7. Creating Co-Developers: Linking Research and Practice
58(13)
D'Ette Cowan and Anita Pankake
8. Two Professional Learning Communities: Tales from the Field
71(13)
Kristine Kiefer Hipp and Jane Bumpers Huffman
9. Change Diaries: Parallel Perspectives on school Change
84(12)
Richela Chapman and Dawn Watson
10. One Principal's Story: Building a Community of Inquiry 96(18)
Brian Riedlinger
11. Against All Odds: Reculturing a Troubled school 114(13)
Dianne F. Olivier
12. The Superintendent's Influence on the Creation of a Professional Learning Community: A Story of School Transition 127(13)
Anita Pankake
13. Building Teacher Leadership Within a Traditional School Structure 140(11)
Gayle Moller
Epilogue: Teaching and Shared Professional Practice A History of Resistance; A Future Dependent on Its Embrace 151(12)
Melissa Capers
References 163(4)
About the Authors 167(6)
Index 173

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