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Article: Communities that undermine learning: school leaders must distinguish between PLCs that genuinely serve greater student learning and groups that protect mediocre performance by both students and adults.(Professional Learning Community)
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- Leadership
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Period 2 common planning time at I River High School: Five minutes after the last bell, Team 9B teachers are amiably catching up on one another's weekends while waiting for the perpetual stragglers to arrive.
Maria, the team leader, seems to be the only one with a sense of urgency. "People, remember our norm of getting started promptly," she implores. "Let's go. We need to spend a few minutes planning April's field trip. Then we have to talk about how we're doing with the interdisciplinary writing prompts."
Before Maria has finished distributing a short agenda, Principal Knox arrives. He's on his daily walkthrough this period and cannot stay, but he ...