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Showing 1 to 20 of 375 for “"learning community"”.
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Building a professional learning community
… 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 most recent …
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Improving Professional Learning Community Structures for Enhanced Professional Practice
… 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 Team (ILT). The …
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Media and milieux : exploring the foundations of learning community
… ambiguity and rhetoric surrounding the term "learning community", this thesis elaborates conceptual foundations for the term. Drawing upon sociological and anthropological literature, the thesis presents community in structural-functional and psycho-social dimensions. In the relationship …
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Impact of Professional Learning Community Design on Teacher Instruction
… 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 determine how the …
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A learning community approach to schooling: Two Australian case studies
… project investigates the implementation of a learning community approach in two rural Australian communities with a particular focus on the initiatives of a primary school in each community. Case study research describes and analyses the developments in each community and a cross case analysis …
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The Professional Staff and Librarian Learning Community at Rowan University
… to sustain our most valuable asset, the academic community. One promising response is Milton Cox's work. He created the Miami University model for faculty and professional learning communities, a nationally-recognized strategy for supporting faculty development, addressing institutional needs, and …
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The electronic learning community : a framework for design and development
How can community or organization anticipate, address and satisfy its ever-evolving learning and communication needs in a cost-effective manner? The argument is presented that learning and communication efficiencies can be achieved by employing a framework that fosters the active questioning and …
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Heritage College: Partnership Leadership as Catalyst to a Multicultural Learning Community
… in the areas of leadership, mission, and community, among others, that a more rigorous, in-depth research study was called for. This dissertation is the follow-up study. The president of Heritage College states that the College sees itself as a leadership- and team-oriented institution …
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Status of the freshmen learning community initiative at Iowa State University
… encourages students to get involved in their learning, both in and outside of the classroom, are learning communities. Learning communities are "relatively small groups of students (and faculty) working together to enhance and integrate students' learning and to help students become …
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Constructing Leadership Identities through Participation in a Leadership Living-Learning Community
… conceptually illustrated how a leadership living-learning community provided an educational context well suited to enhance development of leaders within changing leadership and educational paradigms. Specifically, it highlighted how both leadership and learning have come to be viewed as …
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The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Practices and Developing a Professional Learning Community
… 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 professional …
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The challenges and complexities of initiating a professional learning community of teachers
… 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 interviews, group …
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Using a Learning Community to Manage Pain: A participatory action research study
… who have chronic pain together in collaborative learning communities can have an impact upon the way they manage their chronic pain. Participatory action research has been used with other patient groups, but not with people who have chronic pain. People who have chronic pain are often …
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Leading and developing a first year learning community for opportunity program students
<p>Opportunity programs have utilized the learning community model through summer bridge programs for many years. First year learning communities have proven to be successful tools in retaining students and improving the overall college experience for students (Buck, 1995; Garcia, 1991; Gold, …
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Professional Learning Community Implementation: A Comparison Of General Educators' And Specialists' Perceptions
… 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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Teacher professional development in an online learning community : a case study in Indonesia
… and gradually changed the way teaching and learning are conducted (Hargreaves, 2003). Teachers are increasingly viewed as not only the knowledge providers, but also the facilitators of a learning process. These changes have been difficult for teachers to adapt to, requiring substantial …
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Including Exceptional Children in a Christian Learning Community: New Narratives in Special Education
… children who have disabilities from their learning communities. This study examines the practices of 11 Christian schools throughout the United States, through conversations with a top leader in each school, that provide access to and/or inclusion in their schools.</p> <p>Theory and …
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Relationships among learning community participation, student self-efficacy, confidence, outcome expectations, and commitment
<p>This study brings together research on learning communities and student self-efficacy, confidence, outcome expectations, and commitment. Participation in learning communities has been proven to increase retention rates and success. Similarly, high levels of self-efficacy, confidence, and outcome …
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Inventing a classroom: An ethnographic study of a third-grade, bilingual learning community
… invention and social convention in natural learning experiences, thereby building on Kenneth S. Goodman's theory of language development. The specific evidence of a high level of intellectual expectation, symmetric power and trust relationships between students and teachers, authentic …
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Disengagement From Intrinsically Transient Social Worlds: The Case of a Distance Learning Community
The first two dimensions affect participants' activities throughout membership in a transient social world. The next ten dimensions represent activities that participants undertake as they disengage from an intrinsically transient social world. Taken together, these twelve dimensions model the …
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