Ensuring Student Success in Full-Day Kindergarten: Purposeful Professional Development and Professional Learning Communities

<p>The change leadership model, developed by Wagner et al. (2008), was utilized to assess the context, culture, conditions and competencies of a large suburban school district during the early stages of districtwide implementation of full-day kindergarten. With overwhelming support from families, teachers and administrators, the change plan revolves around ongoing and purposeful professional development for staff building upon systematic work of Professional Learning Communities in order to provide a high quality full-day kindergarten program across twenty-three kindergarten program sites. When districts and schools focus on purposeful professional development and enhanced practice of Professional Learning Communities programs can work to provide outstanding learning opportunities and the foundation for future student success.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D. Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Houlihan, Amy

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Beth Minor
• Dr. Linell Monson

• Curriculum and Instruction
• Early Childhood Education
• Education
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Elementary Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/260

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1270