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Leading Professional Learning Communities : Voices from Research and Practice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks : Corwin Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452207889
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Leading Professional Learning CommunitiesDDC classification:
  • 371.2
LOC classification:
  • LB2822.82 .H667 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Imagine . . . -- Chapter 1 - What Is a PLC?: Professional Learning Communities: Definition and Effects -- Chapter 2 - Why Leadership?: Leadership Imperatives for Professional Learning Communities -- Chapter 3 - Culture and Context, Structures and Schedules, Policies and Procedures -- Chapter 4 - Creating Conditions to Get Started -- Chapter 5 - What Are the Skills Needed to Lead Professional Learning Communities? -- Chapter 6 - Where Are We? Where Should We Be? Who Is Monitoring Our Work? -- Chapter 7 - What Have We Learned? -- References -- Index.
Summary: Imagine all professionals in all schools engaged in continuous professional learning! Education experts Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers explore the school-based learning opportunities offered to school professionals and the principal′s critical role in the creation, development, and support of an effective professional learning community (PLC). This book provides school leaders with readily accessible information to guide them in initiating and developing a PLC that supports teachers and students. Using field-tested examples, the text illustrates how this research-based school improvement model can help educators:  Increase leadership capacity  Embed professional development into daily work Create a positive school culture  Develop accountability  Boost student achievement.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Imagine . . . -- Chapter 1 - What Is a PLC?: Professional Learning Communities: Definition and Effects -- Chapter 2 - Why Leadership?: Leadership Imperatives for Professional Learning Communities -- Chapter 3 - Culture and Context, Structures and Schedules, Policies and Procedures -- Chapter 4 - Creating Conditions to Get Started -- Chapter 5 - What Are the Skills Needed to Lead Professional Learning Communities? -- Chapter 6 - Where Are We? Where Should We Be? Who Is Monitoring Our Work? -- Chapter 7 - What Have We Learned? -- References -- Index.

Imagine all professionals in all schools engaged in continuous professional learning! Education experts Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers explore the school-based learning opportunities offered to school professionals and the principal′s critical role in the creation, development, and support of an effective professional learning community (PLC). This book provides school leaders with readily accessible information to guide them in initiating and developing a PLC that supports teachers and students. Using field-tested examples, the text illustrates how this research-based school improvement model can help educators:  Increase leadership capacity  Embed professional development into daily work Create a positive school culture  Develop accountability  Boost student achievement.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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