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Improving Student Learning Through Professional Learning Communities

2022
This paper aims to understand how the Professional Learning Community (PLC) helps to improve student learning. We refer to a research project was conducted in Italy on lower secondary education in an effort to understand how the Professional Learning Community (PLC) helps to improve student learning.
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Perceptions of professional learning communities

International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2003
The professional learning community concept provides a process for stakeholders to engage collaboratively in dialogue to ensure school improvement and student achievement. The purpose of this research was to analyze core processes of professional learning communities and perceived relationships to school effectiveness, and determine perceived ...
Jane Huffman, Arminta Jacobson
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Professional learning community

2014
From the federal government, to individual states and independent school districts, there is a call for students to achieve to high standards and to have access to high-quality instruction; these goals cannot be achieved without effective school improvements.
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Professional learning in professional communities: the ultimate goal

Professional Development in Education, 2012
The question about the role and purpose of editorials was raised in two earlier issues of Professional Development in Education by Ken Jones (2012) and Jim O’Brien (2012), and they have clearly dra...
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Professional Learning Communities and Teachers' Professional Development

2008
This chapter takes the overall purposes of this collection as its starting point. It addresses the question of how the quality of teaching might be improved by considering selected theoretical and empirical work on effective approaches to the professional development of teachers and on schools as professional learning communities.
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Professional learning in communities of practice

2013
These comments were shared by a group of physical education teachers following a year of working together to create a community of practice (Murphy and Tannehill, 2009). These teachers were similar in that they all worked in urban schools where facilities were limited and students faced difficult situations outside school.
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Service-Learning and Professional Communication

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
In a recent study of Harvard University students, Richard Light documents that for the over 400 students he interviewed the “most important and memorable academic learning [occurs] . . . outside of classes.” His findings are not surprising. Evidence is mounting that courses and activities that link service and learning in some kind of reciprocal ...
Jim Dubinsky, Melody Bowdon
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The Effects of the Professional Learning Communities

2022
We are living in an age of globalization and knowledge society and it has brought new roles and burdens on schools. Teachers and school administrators are expected to perform different roles and this clearly show a professional development need for them.
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Demystifying Professional Learning Communities

2010
The purpose of this book is to clearly define an approach to school improvement that uses professional learning community (PLC) practices to achieve school improvement and success for every student. This book offers information, examples and case studies to clarify the concept of a PLC, to respond to critical issues in schools, and to support ...
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Teacher agency in professional learning communities

Professional Development in Education, 2021
Karin Brodie
exaly