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Schools as Professional Learning Communities: Collaborative Activities and Strategies for Professional Development
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Product Description
Foreword by Susan Sullivan
Transform your school into a learning community with this practical, research-based guide!
Authors Roberts and Pruitt provide the knowledge and skills necessary to work effectively with teachers, parents, administrators, and students to build a learning community. Schools as Professional Learning Communities is full of practical strategies, tips, and activities and addresses the immediate issues faced by teachers in their classrooms, as well as the work teachers, supervisors, and principals perform daily. Highlights of this nuts-and-bolt guide include:
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #796407 in Books
- Published on: 2003-06-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 232 pages
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"Schools as Professional Learning Communities is an extraordinary achievement. It brings together what a long-time practitioner can see and sense. It is an illumination of an exciting path to a constantly improving instructional community."
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Transforming schools into communities of learners is one of the most promising approaches to school reform to surface in the last decade. As educators begin the process of change, they will find the insights, guidance, and suggested activities provided in this text to be of great value when working with staff members. (Edward Lilly, Chairman, Educational Leadership, Special Education, Educational Foundations )
Roberts and Pruitt's work is enormously helpful to those working at sustaining learning communities. The ideas are presented in a reader friendly way that will engage teachers and educational leaders as well. (Linnea Weiland, Director, Curriculum and Instruction )
This book is a must for those seeking to prepare school leaders as well as those seeking to improve school performance. Roberts and Pruitt have presented us with a scholarly work that provides the nuts and bolts for those seeking to understand school leadership. (Leslie Agard-Jones, Dean, College of Education )
Schools as Professional Learning Communities is an extraordinary achievement. It brings together what a long-time practitioner can see and sense. It is an illumination of an exciting path to a constantly improving instructional community. (S. David Adler, Superintendent )
About the Author
Eunice Z. Pruitt is currently an educational consultant and director of professional development for Corn Associates, helping schools align their curriculum and assessment practices with state core curriculum standards. As well as teaching and serving as principal in elementary schools, Pruitt has also taught graduate courses at the City University of New York in leadership, educational planning, and systems problem solving.
Sylvia M. Roberts heads programs in educational administration and supervision at the City College of New York, teaching graduate coursework in educational administration and supervision. Roberts has also taught in middle school and served as consultant and facilitator in numerous school districts.
Customer Reviews
Spectacular!!!!
This is the best book EVER written to assist with understanding the nuts and bolts of school leadership. I have recommended this book to all my colleagues and it is now used as a guide to 85 school principles that I know.
