Teacher Education Is Everybody’s Business: Northern Guilford High School—A Professional Development Community

Lashley, Carl; Cooper, Jewell E.; McCall, Jessica Delk; Yeager, Joseph; Ricci, Christine M

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“…At the other extreme end of this highly organized model, as captured by the 2009 project, is the Professional Development High School that had met for one academic year in North Carolina to develop its vision. The goals for the PLC network, established in 2007, included creating a school-university PLC collaborative focused on practitioners' professional development and collaboration to improve student learning (Lashley, Cooper, McCall, Yeager, & Ricci, 2009). For this initiative, university faculty members, a school principal, and curriculum facilitator brought together approximately 65 teachers (representing 10 departments) and 8 cross-campus university faculty (I was one of them) in a newly built high-tech school for which no student population or culture yet existed.…”

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Democracies in Action: A Changing Learning Community Landscape

Mullen

2011

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Learning alongside others to effect transformation of community and self is a process of inquiry that guides theory and practice. My purpose as an author is to portray a balanced, realistic portrait of the promises and pitfalls of engaging in professional learning communities (PLCs). Herein I present the results of a democratic project that united 42 scholars and practitioners who made discoveries as collaborators within evolving communities of practice geared toward desirable change. I also draw upon the relevant literature to describe this trend and identify possibilities for renewal, reflection, and inquiry that arise out of PLCs.

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Section: Challenges To Community Building and Breakthroughsmentioning

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Democracies in Action: A Changing Learning Community Landscape

Mullen

2011

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Teacher Education Is Everybody’s Business: Northern Guilford High School—A Professional Development Community

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Democracies in Action: A Changing Learning Community Landscape

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