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Professional Learning Communities

It is fairly clear that one of the significant Tools 2 Change Schools is the creation of an environment within schools where there exists a community of learners - both children and adults. The Professional Learning Community is a community, ". . . in which the teachers in a school and its administrators continuously seek and share learning and then act on what they learn. The goal of their actions is to enhance their effectiveness as professionals so that students benefit." <read this quote source>

Below are links to some resources to help your school develop a Professional Learning Community in you school:

Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important?

ASCD Educational Leadership: Schools as Learning Communities

ASCD - Committing to Change

ASCD - Educators As Learners: Creating a Professional Learning Community in Your School

ASCD - Leading Change in Professional Learning Communities

ASCD: [PD-On-Line] Creating and Sustaining Professional Learning Communities

Professional Learning Community

Developing Faculty and Professional Learning Communities (FLCs) to Transform Campus Culture for Learning

NSDC - Learning Communities

AASA - Leading Professional Learning Communities

SERVE - Professional Learning Teams

NAESP - Professional Learning Communities [Requires membership]

Provided as a service of Maine ASCD