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changing schools through professional learning communities
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Introduction ; Professional learning communities: an overview / Shirley M. Hord -- Study description: investigating five PLC schools / D'Ette Cowan ... [et al.] -- Principles and teachers as continuous learners / Grace L. Fleming -- The role of trust building and its relation to collective responsibility / Grace L. Fleming, Tara Leo Thompson -- Creating and sustaining a professional learning community: actions and perceptions of principal leadership / Melanie S. Morrissey, D'Ette Cowan -- Creating co-developers: linking research and practice / D'Ette Cowan, Anita Pankake -- Two professional learning communities: tales from the field / Kristine Kiefer Hipp, Jane Bumpers Huffman -- Change diaries: parallel perspectives on school change / Richela Chapman, Dawn Watson -- One principal's story: building a community of inquiry / Brian Riedlinger -- Against all odds: reculturing a troubled school / Dianne F. Olivier -- The superintendent's influence on the creation of a professional learning community: a story of school transition / Anita Pankake -- Building teacher leadership within a traditional school structure / Gayle Moller -- Epilogue: Teaching and shared professional practice - a history of resistance; a future dependent on its embrace / Melissa Capers.
"The chapters in the book are based on research and development conducted by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory ..."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-166) and index.
Given in Memory of, Mr. Frank P. Thompson '50, by Ms. Sandra Soto, February 2004.
Critical issues in educational leadership series