Guiding professional learning communities : inspiration, challenge, surprise, and meaning /: inspiration, challenge, surprise, and meaning. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Shirley M. Hord, James L. Roussin, William A. Sommers ; foreword by Roland S. Barth.
• Other Names: Hord, Shirley M; Roussin, James L; Sommers, William A
• Contents: Foreword by Roland S. Barth; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Part I. Introduction: Things You Need to Know Before You Use This Book; Part II. Words to the Wise: Before You Begin; Part III. Learning Opportunities: Tools, Tasks, Deep Thinking, and a Wee Bit of Trivia; Learning Opportunity 0.1: A Crisp Rationale for PLCs; Learning Opportunity 0.2: Benefits to Staff and to Students: A Flamingo Dialogue; Learning Opportunity 0.3: Research-Based Components of a PLC: A Jigsaw; Component 1: Shared Beliefs, Values, and Vision; Overview and Current Thinking; Learning Opportunity 1.1: My Personal Learning Compass; Learning Opportunity 1.2: Creating a Culture of Academic Optimism; Learning Opportunity 1.3: Prioritized Abandonment; Learning Opportunity 1.4: Discovering Our Core Values; Component 2: Shared and Supportive Leadership; Overview and Current Thinking; Learning Opportunity 2.1: Friendly Feedback for the Principal; Learning Opportunity 2.2: A Guide for Making Decisions; Learning Opportunity 2.3: Learning Conversations; Learning Opportunity 2.4: Planting the PLC in a Strong Culture; Learning Opportunity 2.5: Positive Deviance; Learning Opportunity 2.6: Distributed Leadership; Component 3: Structural Conditions; Overview and Current Thinking; Learning Opportunity 3.1: Time and Other Essential Ingredients; Learning Opportunity 3.2: Assessing the Effectiveness of PLC Meetings; Learning Opportunity 3.3: Assessment for PLC Development; Learning Opportunity 3.4: The Learning Community’s WORK; Learning Opportunity 3.5: Identifying a PLC Learning Goal; Learning Opportunity 3.6: Traffic Light Indicator; Component 4: Relational Conditions; Overview and Current Thinking; Learning Opportunity 4.1: The Importance of Trust in the PLC; Learning Opportunity 4.2: Group Development; Learning Opportunity 4.3: Mapping Collaborative Interactions; Learning Opportunity 4.4: Relational Conditions; Learning Opportunity 4.5: Building Consensus; Learning Opportunity 4.6: Defusing Conflict in a PLC; Component 5: Intentional Collective Learning and Its Application; Overview and Current Thinking; Learning Opportunity 5.1: Leadership and the Enemies of Learning; Learning Opportunity 5.2: Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning; Learning Opportunity 5.3: The PLC Action Plan; Learning Opportunity 5.4: Listening Together in the PLC; Learning Opportunity 5.5: Using the Stages of Concern to Connect Professional Learning to the Classroom; Learning Opportunity 5.6: Using the Levels of Use (LoU) to Connect Professional Learning to the Classroom; Learning Opportunity 5.7: PLC Growth Development Profile; Component 6: Sharing Personal Practice; Overview and Current Thinking; Learning Opportunity 6.1: “Foursight” for Learning: Four Focus Areas to Consider in Monitoring for Student Learning; Learning Opportunity 6.2: Four Conversations; Learning Opportunity 6.3: Coaching: Transferring Adult Learning to the Classroom or What’s Learned Here Leaves Here; Learning Opportunity 6.4: Reflection Protocols; Learning Opportunity 6.5: Video Sharing Protocol; Part IV. Bringing Closure; Resource A; References; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 371.2/03; School improvement programs -- United States; Group work in education -- United States; Educational change -- United States; Educational leadership -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452237015; 1452237018
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