Learning Together, Leading Together: Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities
- ISBN-10
- 0807744115
- ISBN-13
- 9780807744116
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-01-05
- Publisher
- Teachers College Press
- Author
- Shirley M. Hord
Description
Increasingly the education world is recognizing that the development of learning communities is an effective means for improving schools without increasing the budget or adding new programs. This indispensible volume offers practical advice gathered from 22 schools (elementary, middle, and high schools) that have successfully modeled or are creating professional learning communities.
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