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The Principal as Professional Learning Community Leader

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Principal as Professional Learning Community Leader is designed to provide principals with hands-on, practical support as they build professional learning communities (PLCs) in their schools in order to improve student achievement. With an emphasis on creating a collaborative culture for action, this book offers step-by-step plans, along with practical strategies, to use with staff to create the conditions within which PLCs thrive. The book leads principals through the process of building a PLC by defining the key attributes of PLCs; explaining the principalÆs role in leading the process; and then showing how to create a steering team, introduce the concept to staff, develop teacher learning teams, and create mission, vision and goal statements as the foundation of PLCs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781412963138
• ISBN-10: 1412963133
• Artikelnr.: 25051669

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Building Professional Learning Communities
Why Professional Learning Communities?
The PLC Edifice: An Analogy
Feature: Reflection and Action Template
Summary
2. The Role of Principals in Leading Professional Learning Communities
Leadership Practices of the PLC Principal
Principal/Vice Principal Learning Teams
Feature: Reflection and Action Template
Summary
3. Planning for Professional Learning Communities
Collaborative Leadership: Creating the PLC Steering Team
PLC Snapshot Assessment
Setting Up a Tracking System
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
4. Introducing Staff to Professional Learning Communities: Foundations
Laying the Foundations of a PLC
Feature: Professional Development Modules: Introducing Staff to PLCs
Guiding Questions
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
5. Supporting Learning Teams: The Pillars
Learning Teams for Improving Student Achievement
The Four Pillars
Feature: Professional Development Module: PLC Learning Teams
Guiding Questions
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
6. The Roof: Continuous Learning and Continuous Improvement
Reflection and Action
Celebration
Guiding Questions
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
The Principal¿s Tool Kit
Professional Development Modules
Case Studies
Reproducibles
Glossary
References
Index