We Are All In This Together: The Impact of Collaborative Professional Learning Teams on 21st Century Literacy Instruction

<p>Professional learning communities and collaboration are often seen and heard in schools today as educators work to prepare students to be college and career ready in the 21^st century. This dissertation explores the impacts that collaboration within professional learning communities has on the literacy instruction of teachers in a large suburban school district. Qualitative data was collected through interviews and observations following three teams through one school year. Interviews with team members and the building administrators along with observations of team meetings paint the picture of collaborative practices in these teams. The results show the teachers and administrators at the schools value collaboration in their teams and the literacy instruction of team members benefits from working together. However, each of the teams has their own systems and practices in place that leads to both similarities and differences between the teams in terms of the impact collaboration has on instruction. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D. Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Reading and Language

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Thompson, Michelle K

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sophie Degener

• collaboration impacting instruction
• professional learning communities
• Language and Literacy Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/242

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1251