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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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Professional Community in Chicago Elementary Schools: Facilitating Factors and Organizational Consequences. Revised. Final Deliverable to OERI.
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of structural, human, and social factors on the emergence of a school-based professional community and the extent to which such developments in turn promote learning and experimentation among faculty is examined.
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Professionalism and Community: Perspectives on Reforming Urban Schools
TL;DR: In this article, an emerging framework for analyzing school-based professional community in urban schools is presented. But, it does not address the challenges and concompts of professionalism and community in Urban Schools.
Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities
TL;DR: In this article, the main finding from the Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities (EPLC) project was summarised, which was funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the General Teaching Council for England (GTCe), and the National College for School Leadership (NCSL).
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Professional Community in Chicago Elementary Schools: Facilitating Factors and Organizational Consequences:
TL;DR: In this paper, the professional community is receiving markedly increased attention as part of both practitioner and scholarly efforts to promote improvements in instruction and student learning, and the interest in this are...