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Learning Communities
These
books and articles can provide insight and information for
forming and sustaining professional learning communities.
Learning
Communities and Team Skills
This
collection of tools and articles from the National Staff
Development Council emphasizes the value of effective collaboration
and contains information about building productive teams.
Learning
Together, Leading Together: Changing Schools Through Professional
Learning Communities
This
volume by Shirley Hord clearly defines the professional
learning community. Hord offers practical advice, identifies
the benefits that accrue to staff and students, and outlines
the strategies required to launch, develop, and sustain
a community of professional learners that promote student
learning.
National
Staff Development Council's Standards for Staff Development,
Revised
This
book focuses on what it takes to construct high-quality
professional development that leads to higher student performance
and on conditions under which educators can get the most
out of their learning experiences. Professional
Learning Communities and Collaboration
are featured in this book.
Professional
Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and
Improvement
In
this online book, Shirley Hord examines literature on Professional
Learning Communities to determine what professional learning
communities look like and how they function, why they are
important for both staff and students, and how such learning
communities are introduced and developed in schools as a
new organizational arrangement.
Professional
Learning Community
This
article by Rick DuFour explains the characteristics of Professional
Learning Communities and how they operate.
Support
for Professional Learning Teams
This
site continually updates tips, tools, and information for
use with A Facilitator's
Guide to Professional Learning Teams
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Reflective Teaching
The following resources can provide additional information and directions for Professional Learning Team members who wish to incorporate action research as a part of their professional growth.
Action
Research: Facilitator's Handbook
This
handbook by Cathy Caro-Bruce provides an excellent "roadmap
for action research facilitators to help groups" and
includes quotations, handouts, strategies, resources, and
insights from a number of widely experienced action-research
teachers.
Classroom
Action Research: The Nature and Impact of an Action Research
Professional Development Program in One Urban School District
This
is an excellent examination of the nuts-and-bolts of action
research in a school district (Madison, Wisconsin) where
it has been integrated successfully for many years.
Living
the Questions: A Guide for Teacher-researchers
This
book by Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power is
filled with "essays written by teacher researchers,
data samples, field notes, and self-reflections" and
is a rich source of practical information from the practitioner's
point of view.
Moving
from Professional Talk to Teacher Research. Proceedings of
the 2000 American Educational Research Association Annual
Meeting
This
proceedings chapter from this document is especially useful
for administrators interested in action research.
Networks:
An On-line Journal for Teacher Research
This
website is a seminal location for ongoing publications related
to action research. It covers both the theoretical and the
practical from many perspectives, including those of university
professors and K–12 classroom teachers.
What
Are the Conditions That Sustain Teacher Research? Proceedings
of the 2000 American Educational Research Association Annual
Meeting
This
article focuses on an action-research model of professional
development at Highland Park (Illinois) High School.
Where
do the Mermaids Stand?: Teacher Research as Professional Development
at the School Level. Proceedings of the 1996 American Educational
Research Association Annual Meeting
This
proceedings chapter examines how an entire school staff
can reconceptualize professional development as teacher
research.
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