Research Page
Collaborative Crusader: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Learning Community for Teachers
http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-age-technology-lisa-huff
Collaborative Online Continuing Education: Professional Development Through Learning Communities
http://www.edutopia.org/professional-development-through-learning-communities
Professional Learning Communities
http://www.chatfieldpublicschools.net/district/Documents/PLC%20Framework.pdf
Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10833-006-0001-8
Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Second Edition)
http://pages.solution-tree.com/rs/solutiontree/images/lbd_studyguide.pdf
Covey, Stephen M.R. The Speed of Trust: The One Thing the Changes Everything,Free Press: a division of Simon & Schuster Inc, New York 2006
The above articles and book cover a variety of topics that assisted me in the process of becoming a teacher leader with regards to my role as a PLC strand leader and building collaboration and trust among the team. The importance of being trusted, understanding how a PLC should work and why is vital to this project coming to maturity and growing. Teachers can become better at their profession when an environment of trust and open collaboration is fostered within the school culture. Instruction is no longer one teacher and one classroom but a group of people who need to support one another and the professional environment in which teachers operate has a direct impact on student learning.
Collaborative Crusader: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Learning Community for Teachers
http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-age-technology-lisa-huff
Collaborative Online Continuing Education: Professional Development Through Learning Communities
http://www.edutopia.org/professional-development-through-learning-communities
Professional Learning Communities
http://www.chatfieldpublicschools.net/district/Documents/PLC%20Framework.pdf
Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10833-006-0001-8
Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Second Edition)
http://pages.solution-tree.com/rs/solutiontree/images/lbd_studyguide.pdf
Covey, Stephen M.R. The Speed of Trust: The One Thing the Changes Everything,Free Press: a division of Simon & Schuster Inc, New York 2006
The above articles and book cover a variety of topics that assisted me in the process of becoming a teacher leader with regards to my role as a PLC strand leader and building collaboration and trust among the team. The importance of being trusted, understanding how a PLC should work and why is vital to this project coming to maturity and growing. Teachers can become better at their profession when an environment of trust and open collaboration is fostered within the school culture. Instruction is no longer one teacher and one classroom but a group of people who need to support one another and the professional environment in which teachers operate has a direct impact on student learning.