Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders andeducators tackle the challenges of building successful professional learning communities. This wide-ranging text will prove indispensable for any democratically accountable leader committed to organizational change through communities of practice. INDICE: Introducing Collaborative Communities With Edge and Vitality; C.A.Mullen - PART I: ORGANIZATION AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY - Understanding Schools as Organizations: Implications for Realizing Professional Learning Communities; B.L.Johnson, Jr. - Forming Schoolb University Partnerships to Create Professional Learning Communities That Improve Schools; L.R.Goduto , V.Doolittle ;D.Leake - Developing Professional Learning Communities in a Universityb Public School Partnership; R.V.Bullough Jr. ; S.C.Baugh - Professional Development Schools: Learning Communities for Leaders and Teachers as Change Agents; M.Sudeck , V.Doolittle ; P.Rattigan - Teacher Education is Everybody's Business: Northern Guilford High School, a Professional Development Community; C.Lashley ,J.Cooper , J.McCall , J.Yeager ; C.Ricci - The University Connection: Transformational Learning That Enhances Professional Learning Communities; S.Harris ,V.Farrow and H.Lowery-Moore - A Vision for Linking Pre-K and Higher EducationThrough Learning Communities; J.R.Hoyle ; T.M.Kutka - PART II: DEMOCRACY AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY - Forming Culturally Responsive Learning Communities inDemographically Changing Schools; C.Wilson Cooper , R.Allen ; S.C.Bettez - Transforming the Space of Schools Into Learning Communities: Teacher Leadership as Pedagogy of Democratic Place; P.M.Jenlink ; K.E.Jenlink - Catalysts and Barriers: Practitioner Concepts of Professional Learning Communities as Democracies in Action; C.A.Mullen ; S.Harris Faculty of Color Constructing Communities at Predominantly White Institutions; D.L.Roseboro ; C.P.Gause - Support for Women Leaders: The Visible and the Invisible; J.H.Applegate , P.M.Earley ; J.Mattuck Tarule - PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY - Professional Learning Communities and the Culture of Digital Technology: A Philosophic Inquiry; G.M.Hudak - Virtual Learning Communities: Encountering Digital Culture, Politics, and Capital; R.A.Carter ; L.E.Villaverde - Graduate Students' and Preservice Teachers' Electronic Communications in a Community of Practice; J.C.Richards , S.V.Bennett ; K.G.Thomas - PART IV: MENTORING AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY - Leadership in Kb 12 Learning Communities: Activism and Access Through Inter-Generational Understanding; D.J.Davis , - L.Green-Jerry ; J.Wells - Facilitating Professional Learning Communities Through Mentor Teacher Preparation; S.D.Myers ; H.Fives - Peer Learning Communities in Action: Coaching to Improve Preservice Teaching; C.R.Pryor ; B.D.O'Donnell - Conclusion: Community Change Through Activism: Insights and Lessons; C.A.Mullen
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61238-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 13/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés