Teachers Learning in Community: Realities and Possibilities (Suny Series, Restructuring and School Change) [Paperback]

Betty Lou Whitford (Editor), Diane R. Wood (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2010 | Series: Suny Series, Restructuring and School Change

Raises provocative questions about the efficacy, viability, and sustainability of professional learning communities.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book both illuminates the work of professional learning communities and raises crucial questions about the ways this work is unfolding--and not unfolding--in schools across the nation." --Nancy Fichtman Dana, author of Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Back Cover

This book raises provocative questions about the efficacy, viability, and sustainability of professional learning communities given the current political and structural realities of public schools. The culmination of six years of research in five states, it explores real-world efforts to establish learning communities as a strategy for professional development and school improvement. The contributors look at the realities of these communities in public schools, revealing power struggles, logistical dilemmas, cultural conflicts, and communication problems--all forces that threaten to dismantle the effectiveness of learning communities. And yet, through robust and powerful descriptions of particularly effective learning communities, the contributors hold out promise that they might indeed make a difference. Anyone persuaded that learning communities are the new "magic bullet" to fix schools needs to read this book, including teacher educators, educational leaders and practitioners, professional developers, and educational leadership faculty. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr (April 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1438430604
• ISBN-13: 978-1438430607
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,277,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)