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Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices From Research and Practice de Shirley M. Hord

Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices From Research and Practice

Editat de Shirley M. Hord, William A. Sommers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2008

Analizând resursele oferite de SAGE Publications sub amprenta Corwin, observăm că Leading Professional Learning Communities se poziționează ca un ghid esențial pentru managementul educațional modern. Volumul, editat de Shirley M. Hord și William A. Sommers, fundamentează teoretic și practic conceptul de PLC, un model de îmbunătățire școlară axat pe dezvoltarea capacității colective și pe creșterea performanței elevilor.

Ne-a atras atenția organizarea riguroasă a celor șapte capitole. Cartea debutează cu o clarificare conceptuală a ceea ce înseamnă o comunitate de învățare profesională, progresând natural către imperativul leadershipului și condițiile structurale necesare — politici, proceduri și orare. Apreciem în mod deosebit capitolul cinci, care detaliază competențele specifice necesare liderilor pentru a construi aceste comunități, oferind un răspuns concret la întrebarea „cum monitorizăm munca noastră?”. Această abordare completează perspectiva oferită de The Principal as Professional Learning Community Leader, adăugând o bază solidă de cercetare academică la strategiile practice de implementare.

În contextul operei sale vaste, Leading Professional Learning Communities reprezintă o sinteză a expertizei lui Shirley M. Hord, fiind strâns legată de seria Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning. Dacă lucrările sale anterioare se concentrau pe implementarea standardelor Learning Forward, volumul de față oferă „vocile” cercetării care justifică necesitatea acestor schimbări culturale în școli. Față de titluri precum Bringing Your Learning Community to Life, care propun exerciții pas cu pas pentru un interval de 12 luni, lucrarea de față pune accent pe transformarea culturii școlare și pe responsabilitatea liderului de a susține un mediu de învățare continuă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412944779
ISBN-10: 1412944775
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: figures
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este recomandată directorilor de școli și formatorilor care doresc să transforme mediul educațional dintr-unul izolat într-unul colaborativ. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care structurile și politicile școlare pot susține dezvoltarea profesională a cadrelor didactice. Este un instrument valoros pentru cei care caută să fundamenteze deciziile de management pe date din cercetare și pe bune practici validate.

Despre autor

Shirley M. Hord, PhD, este o figură proeminentă în peisajul educațional american, deținând titlul de „scholar laureate” al Learning Forward. Înainte de retragerea sa de la Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, a condus programe strategice pentru creșterea succesului elevilor. Cariera sa vastă, care a început la catedra unei școli primare și a continuat în mediul academic, i-a permis să dezvolte metodologii recunoscute la nivel internațional pentru crearea comunităților de învățare profesională. Expertiza sa în leadership școlar și schimbare educațională este reflectată în numeroasele sale publicații de referință.

Descriere scurtă

Professional Learning Communities, or PLCs, is a school improvement model that continues to grow in popularity as a means to build capacity, embed professional development, create a positive school culture, grow accountability, and increase student achievement. This book provides an overview for why PLCs are needed & what they can accomplish.

Recenzii

"The most important volume available to help principals undertake the challenging yet exhilarating work of building true communities of professional learning." 
"It takes leadership for a school to become a community of professional learners, and that’s what this book is about. Steeped in years of study and immersed in the realities of school life, the book does not gloss over the challenges that leaders will encounter as they embark on this journey. The authors draw upon rich research evidence and personal experiences, sprinkle humorous vignettes throughout, and offer many practical and proven change strategies. This is a valuable resource for any educational leader who wishes to become a 'head learner.'"
"Hord is the originator of the triple-headed concept of professional learning communities. Sommers is an experienced administrator and past president of the National Staff Development Council. With their extensive backgrounds in educational evaluation and the implementation of school change and development, they are uniquely equipped to delineate and defend a particular vision of professional learning communities that has educational depth, professional richness, and moral integrity."
"A well-developed research base supports the importance of professional learning communities, but until this book, how-to publications have been short on empirical evidence. Hord and Sommers create a powerful bridge between knowledge and action that reflects their deep experience as scholar-practitioners committed to improving school culture. The book’s dual focus on principles and 'rocks in the road' provide a grounded basis for school leaders. A dog-eared copy should be in every principal’s office and in every professional developer’s tool kit."
"Readers will immediately sense from the authors a deep respect for educators combined with an understanding of the challenges that schools face today. Hord and Sommers's rationale and suggestions will resonate because they come from experience and great insight. The bottom line remains steadfast for these two distinguished educators: you implement a PLC so that teachers learn and students achieve. This text will help educators reach toward that compelling vision."
"An excellent guide highly recommended for working professional educators."

Cuprins

Foreword by Andy Hargreaves
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. What Is a PLC? Professional Learning Communities: Definitions and Effects
2. Why Leadership? Leadership Imperatives for Professional Learning Communities
3. Culture and Context, Structures and Schedules, Policies and Procedures
4. Creating Conditions to Get Started
5. What Are the Skills Needed to Build Professional Learning Communities?
6. Where Are We? Where Should We Be? Who Is Monitoring Our Work?
7. What Have We Learned?
References
Index

Notă biografică

Shirley Hord, is Scholar Emerita at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Texas, where she directed the Strategies for Increasing Student Success Program; she continues to monitor the Leadership For Change Project, and support applications of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM). In addition, she designs and coordinates professional development activities related to educational change, school improvement, and school leadership. She served as coordinator of Demonstration Schools, a multi-year rural school improvement project in the lab's region.

Her early roles as elementary school classroom teacher and university science education faculty at The University of Texas at Austin were followed by her appointment as Co-Director of Research on the Improvement Process at the Research and Development Center for Teacher Education at The University of Texas at Austin. There she administered and conducted research on school improvement and the role of school leadership in school change. This work focused on the concerns and needs of teachers implementing change in their content knowledge and instructional practices, and how leaders support them through structures and staff development interventions during the change process.

She served as a Fellow of the National Center for Effective Schools Research and Development, and was U.S. representative to the Foundation for the International School Improvement Project, an international effort that develops research, training, and policy initiatives to support local school improvement practices. In addition to working with educators at all levels across the U.S., Mexico and Canada, Hord makes presentations and consults in Asia, Europe, Australia, and Africa.

Her current interests focus on qualitative research into understanding and delivering comprehensive educational reform to schools, and the functioning and creation of educational organizations as professional learning communities and the role of leaders, including teacher leaders, who serve such organizations.

Hord is the author of numerous articles and books, the most recent of which are:
Hord, S.M. & Sommers, W.A. (in press). Leadership and professional learning communities: Possibilities, practices, and performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Hall, G.E. & Hord, S.M. (2006). Implementing change: Patterns, principles and potholes (Second Edition). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Hord, S.M. (Ed.) (2004). Learning Together, Leading Together: Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities. New York: Teachers College Press.

Roy, P. & Hord, S.M. (2003). Moving staff development standards into practice: Innovation configurations. Oxford, OH: National Staff Development Council and Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.

Descriere

Imagine all professionals in all schools engaged in continuous professional learning!
Education experts Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers explore the school-based learning opportunities offered to school professionals and the principal's critical role in the creation, development, and support of an effective professional learning community (PLC). This book provides school leaders with readily accessible information to guide them in initiating and developing a PLC that supports teachers and students. Using field-tested examples, the text illustrates how this research-based school improvement model can help educators: 
  • Increase leadership capacity 
  • Embed professional development into daily work
  • Create a positive school culture 
  • Develop accountability 
  • Boost student achievement