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Direct linkGomez, Louis M.; Russell, Jennifer L.; Bryk, Anthony S.; LeMahieu, Paul G.; Mejia, Eva M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Educators are realizing that individuals working in isolation can't adequately address the teaching and learning problems that face us today. Collective action networks are needed. Sharing networks use collective energy to support individual action and agency, whereas execution networks typically address complex problems that require sustained…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Teacher Collaboration, Mathematics Teachers
Khachatryan, Edit; Parkerson, Emma – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Teachers have historically been at the margins of educational improvement, and they are just beginning to drive improvements in the profession. Networked improvement communities (NICs) are one approach for collective reprofessionalization of teaching, where practice is defined and managed by practitioners. Edit Khachatryan and Emma Parkerson offer…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teacher Role, Communities of Practice, Educational Change
Hewson, Kurtis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The Professional Learning Network (PLN) is gaining momentum in the education lexicon. It records and reflects the personal development of a community of learners--primarily online through a variety of platforms and social networks--in which educators share resources, provide support, introduce and debate ideas and celebrate learning. These…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Support Groups, Cooperation, Faculty Development
Ferriter, William M.; Provenzano, Nicholas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Thousands of teachers are exploring the boundaries of their practice together on Twitter, in blogs, and at seminars, and they represent a new generation of educators who are actively redefining how innovation occurs in the schoolhouse. For many of these educators, exposure to adjacent possibilities--the first step toward innovation--starts in the…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Teacher Education, Professional Development, Computer Mediated Communication
Glaze, Avis – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Ontario embraced a provincial lead improvement plan that was designed to improve its 5,000 schools by focusing on literacy and numeracy, improving high school graduation, and improving public support for education. Its primary strategy was developing networks of educators and building their capacity for growth.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Effective Schools Research, Success, Educational Improvement
MacIver, Martha Abele; Groginsky, Scott – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
The Colorado Graduates Initiative demonstrates seven factors that must be present to build an effective statewide collaborative effort to increase high school graduation rates. These include: 1) Leadership to unite diverse stakeholders on specific, common goals and catalyze them into action; 2) A focus on data, particularly on actionable, early…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Graduation, Graduation Rate, Dropouts
