Transcription of 1 The Professional Learning Community - Corwin
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The Professional Learning CommunityAn OverviewPreVieW oF the chaPterToday, a great deal is known about what leads to school improvement and about the change process in schools. In the current literature, there is exten-sive discussion of the Learning Community as an effective model for foster-ing school improvement and general consensus about high-quality Learning activities as essential factors in the improvement of teaching and Learning . This chapter provides the theoretical basis for an understanding of the learn-ing Community as a metaphor for schools and the rationale for the strategies that lead to schools characterized by collaboration, shared leadership, and ongoing Learning . The evolution of the Learning Community in the research literature is explored and an in-depth discussion of the characteristics and impact of the Learning Community on students, teachers, and staff is pro-vided.
effective schools and the importance of the principal’s leadership role and behavior (Leithwood, Seashore-Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004; Purkey & Smith, 1983; Sergiovanni, 1992). The metaphor for schools that dominated the literature during this period was the notion of schools as formal organizations.
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