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Professional Learning Community
Louise Stoll
- pp 151-157
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In many countries, policymakers view its potential for the capacity building needed to implement educational reform, while researchers are trying to gain greater nuanced and contextualized understanding of professional learning community as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
There is increasing consensus that the term professional learning community broadly refers to an inclusive and mutually supportive group of people with a collaborative, reflective, and growth-oriented approach toward investigating and learning more about their practice in order to improve students’ learning. In many countries, policymakers view its potential for the capacity building needed to implement educational reform, while researchers are trying to gain greater nuanced and contextualized understanding of professional learning community. This article probes the meaning and purpose of professional learning community, membership, identified characteristics, levels of impact, and process and processes of development.read more
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Distributed leadership and professional learning communities
Peter Hudson,Suzanne Hudson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a cyclic model for facilitating professional learning communities is presented, where information such as issues and problems are brought to the collective, discussed and analysed openly to provide further feedback.
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Extent of Implementing the Characteristics of Professional Learning Communities at the UAE Special Education Centers
TL;DR: Abdallah et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the extent of practicing the characteristics of professional learning communities at special education (SE) centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and determined whether the PLC skills among SE educators vary on the basis of the type of educator, educational level, years of experience, and students' disability.
Equitable Education of English Learners in the Common Core Age: Implications for Principal Leadership.
TL;DR: The authors highlights the importance of school principals in English Learners' academic achievement in the age of the Common Core State Standards and highlights the need for site level instructional leadership through professional development to address the academic learning needs of English learners.
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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
TL;DR: Identity in practice, modes of belonging, participation and non-participation, and learning communities: a guide to understanding identity in practice.
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Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: The capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organizational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support as mentioned in this paper, which gives individuals, groups, whole school communities and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time.
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The persistence of privacy: autonomy and initiative in teachers professional relationships.
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Professional Communities and the Work of High School Teaching
TL;DR: This paper found that departmental cultures play a crucial role in classroom settings and expectations, and that social studies teachers described their students as "apathetic and unwilling to work" while English teachers described the same students as bright, interesting, and energetic.