Building School-based Teacher Learning Communities - Professional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement

Building on extensive evidence that school-based teacher learning communities improve student outcomes, this book lays out an agenda to develop and sustain collaborative professional cultures. McLaughlin and Talbert--foremost scholars of school change and teaching contexts--provide an inside look at the processes, resources, and system strategies that are necessary to build vibrant school-based teacher learning communities.

About the author

Milbrey W. McLaughlin is the David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy at Stanford University, Co-director of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching (CRC), and Executive Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. Joan E. Talbert is Senior Research Scholar and Co-director of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching in the Stanford University School of Education.

Summary

Building on evidence that school-based teacher learning communities improve student outcomes, this book lays out an agenda to develop and sustain collaborative professional cultures. It provides an inside look at the processes, resources, and system strategies that are necessary to build vibrant school-based teacher learning communities.

Product details

• Authors: J. W. Gardner, Milbrey W McLaughlin, Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin, Milbrey/ Talbert McLaughlin, Joan E Talbert, Joan E. Talbert
• Assisted by: Ann Lieberman (Editor), Joseph P Mcdonald (Editor), Patricia A Wasley (Editor), Patricia A. Wasley (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2006
• EAN: 9780807746790
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4679-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Series on School Reform (Paper; School Reform S.; Series on School Reform; School Reform; Series on School Reform (Paper
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system