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Article: Great leaders for great schools: this five-district professional learning community is having a positive influence on school culture, teaching practices and student achievement.
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- Leadership
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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The development of professional learning communities has become an integral component in contemporary school reform efforts. Although current PLC forms have emerged from the school re-culturing movement in the early 1990s, its conceptual underpinnings are framed around theories about the sociology of the workplace, adult learning, workplace motivation, job satisfaction and personal efficacy. Importantly, over time, empirical research has revealed evidence that high-performing PLCs can positively influence student achievement (Rosenholz, 1989; Kruse, Louis & Bryk, 1998; Barkley, 2009).
Most scholars agree that a successful PLC is not a prescriptive phenomenon of ...