Learning together, leading together : changing schools through professional learning communities / Shirley M. Hord, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hord, Shirley M.

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.

Series:

Critical issues in educational leadership series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Professional relationships.

Teachers.

School improvement programs.

Physical Description:

viii, 184 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press ; Oxford, Ohio : National Staff Development Council, [2004]

Summary:

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 indispensable volume offers practical advice gathered from 22 schools (elementary, middle, and high schools) that have successfully modeled or are creating professional learning communities.

Contents:

2. Professional Learning Communities: An Overview / Shirley M. Hord 5

3. Study Description: Investigating Five PLC Schools / D'Ette Cowan, Grace L. Fleming, Tara Leo Thompson, Melanie S. Morrissey 15

4. Principals and Teachers as Continuous Learners / Grace L. Fleming 20

5. The Role of Trust Building and Its Relation to Collective Responsibility / Grace L. Fleming, Tara Leo Thompson 31

6. Creating and Sustaining a Professional Learning Community: Actions and Perceptions of Principal Leadership / Melanie S. Morrissey, D'Ette Cowan 45

7. Creating Co-Developers: Linking Research and Practice / D'Ette Cowan, Anita Pankake 58

8. Two Professional Learning Communities: Tales from the Field / Kristine Kiefer Hipp, Jane Bumpers Huffman 71

9. Change Diaries: Parallel Perspectives on School Change / Richela Chapman, Dawn Watson 84

10. One Principal's Story: Building a Community of Inquiry / Brian Riedlinger 96

11. Against All Odds: Reculturing a Troubled School / Dianne F. Olivier 114

12. The Superintendent's Influence on the Creation of a Professional Learning Community: A Story of School Transition / Anita Pankake 127

13. Building Teacher Leadership Within a Traditional School Structure / Gayle Moller 140

Epilogue: Teaching and Shared Professional Practice

A History of Resistance; A Future Dependent on Its Embrace / Melissa Capers 151.

Notes:

"The chapters in the book are based on research and development conducted by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory ..."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-166) and index.

ISBN:

0807744123

0807744115

OCLC:

52860150