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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Professional Learning Community"”.
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Building a professional learning community
… achievement levels through the formation of a professional learning community at the Ann A. Mullen Middle School in Sicklerville, New Jersey.</p> <p>The project involved an analysis of the current school culture through small group and individual interviews, a survey, and an examination of the …
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Improving Professional Learning Community Structures for Enhanced Professional Practice
… the historical reality of the District ABC professional learning communities (PLC) to gain a better understanding of their past effectiveness and secure recommendations for the future. This Change Plan included a qualitative study conducted with the members of the Instructional Leadership …
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Impact of Professional Learning Community Design on Teacher Instruction
<p>This descriptive case study closely examined a professional learning community in an Arkansas middle school. The site was selected because the school was removed from the state's school improvement list after implementing professional learning communities. The purpose of the study was to …
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The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Practices and Developing a Professional Learning Community
… of these practices on developing and fostering a professional learning community within their schools. Fifty-nine elementary school principals, from school districts located in south central Pennsylvania, participated in this study. Five schools were selected to obtain additional responses from …
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The challenges and complexities of initiating a professional learning community of teachers
… the challenges and complexities of initiating a professional learning community of teachers. Situated in a school in the British West Indies, this study draws on the experiences of seven teachers initiating a professional learning community (PLC) over a 12-week term in 2007. Individual …
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Professional Learning Community Implementation: A Comparison Of General Educators' And Specialists' Perceptions
… feel empowered by efforts to implement professional learning communities (PLCs)? The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine differences in teachers' perceptions of PLC implementation in the Minot Public School District. The study addressed teachers' overall perceptions of PLC …
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The Impact of Whole Faculty Study Groups and Peer Observations on the Professional Learning Community
… the staff, students, and the parents. The school community must become alive with learning among the staff, students and parents. The school staff must see themselves as a community of learners, where the entire school learns together. The term used to describe a school where the faculty sees …
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The professional learning community: an educational construct to improve student learning through effective teacher collaboration
… Pre-K - third grade school located in a suburban community on the east coast of the United States, wherein teachers work the majority of the time in isolation from their peers and where collaboration is the exception, not the rule. Teachers have few opportunities to share teaching strategies and …
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Development and determination of reliability and validity of professional learning community collaborative team survey (CTS)
The study of transformative learning within collaborative teams was conducted to gain new applicable knowledge used to influence overall school improvement and implementation of professional learning communities. To obtain this new knowledge, the Professional Learning Community Collaborative Team …
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Study of the Implementation of a Professional Learning Community in one Middle School in Georgia
… to improve, educators consider implementing a professional learning community model which focuses on the improvement of teaching and learning. While attributes and characteristics of professional learning communities are documented in the literature, little is known about how the model is …
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The Effect of Professional Learning Community Principles on English Language Learner Instructional Practices and Reading Achievement
This case study examined the principles of a professional learning community (PLC) in an elementary school setting and their impact on instructional practices and effect on the reading achievement of English Language Learner (ELL) students. The cohort of students in this study was followed from …
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Examining the Impact of Participation in a Collaborative Professional Learning Community with a Focus on Stem Engineering Education
… engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning have increasingly become a part of educational practice and pedagogy. Educators, business leaders, and policy-makers seek to get involved with funding and making decisions for STEM initiatives. Stakeholders include those looking forward to …
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Using a professional learning community to include emotionally and behaviorally disordered students and their teachers in inclusion programs
… disturbed (EBD) students. This study employed a professional learning community as a means to give the teachers a voice in the inclusion program, and allow the teachers to work together to find strategies best fitted for this population of students. The results of this study can be used to help …
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Integrated Phenomenological Study of Teachers' Perceptions of a Professional Learning Community Utilizing Senge'S Five Disciplines of a Learning Organization
… at reform through implementing a component of a professional learning community to determine if Senge's five disciplines of a learning organization were present. The school was in the second year of implementing common planning time, one of the practices related to organizational learning. This …
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A critical exploration of a Professional Learning Community as a mechanism for developing whole-school approaches to literacy in Wales.
… the literacy coordinators of these schools in a Professional Learning Community (PLC), lesson observation, teacher interviews and, at the start and the end of the year of the research, pupil data gathered from PISA Reading Literacy test papers. The research was sociocultural in design and …
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Looking at schools through a professional learning community lens : a comparison of leadership and management practices at two secondary schools
… practices nurture the development of a Professional Learning Community (PLC). The data comprised transcripts of semi structured interviews, notes from observation of interactions between staff and documents pertaining to meetings. I chose a double case study approach in order to analyse …
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Laying the Foundation to Improve Literacy in a K-12 Islamic School Through the Introduction of a Professional Learning Community: A Formative Evaluation
<p>To improve professional development, a professional learning community (PLC) was initiated at a small, K–12 Islamic school in northwest suburban Chicago, IL. This evaluation describes and assesses the initiation and year-one implementation of the PLC, and focuses on teachers’ literacy …
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The Examination of Real-Life Implementations of Critical Elements in a Professional Learning Community for High-Performing Middle Schools and Low-Performing Middle Schools
… or organizational changes by implementing professional learning communities to achieve the desired outcome of improving student achievement and became high-performing schools. Conversely, there were school personnel that made structural or organizational changes by implementing professional …
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