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Fitzgerald, Tanya; Harford, Judith – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
This is an historical and comparative paper that examines the importance of women's educational organizations across time and space and the deliberative attempts of individual members to advocate for the expansion of their professional knowledge, expertise and reach. Specifically, the historical spotlight is turned on the International Federation…
Descriptors: Females, Professional Associations, College Faculty, Professional Development
Fields, Jane; Halloran, Clare; Peterson, Kristin – Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2019
The Minnesota Principals Academy (MPA) is an executive development program that provides ongoing professional development to Minnesota's school leaders by connecting theory to practice. The program is housed in the University of Minnesota's Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development in the College of Education and Human…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Leadership Training
Fields, Jane; Halloran, Clare; Peterson, Kristin – Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2019
The Minnesota Principals Academy (MPA) is an executive development program designed to enhance the performance of school leaders in order to improve educational outcomes for students. The Center for Applied Research and Education Improvement (CAREI) serves as the program evaluator with the intention of providing information on the extent to which…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Leadership Training
Cox, Marge – Knowledge Quest, 2015
As an educator for thirty-four years, the author describes several great changes she has seen in the field of education since she started in the 1970s. The author gives advice to educators just beginning their careers. Old and new ways of receiving professional development are explained along with the limitations and benefits of these options.…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Benefits
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Wells, Caryn M.; Feun, Lindson – Journal of Educational Change, 2013
This paper documents the progress of eight middle schools, four from one school district, and four from another that were engaged in the process of implementing Professional Learning Community (PLC) concepts. The descriptive study used quantitative and qualitative information gathered in a standardized, open-ended interview with the teachers and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Middle Schools, Likert Scales, School Districts
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Thomas, Anne Burns; Niesz, Tricia – Professional Development in Education, 2012
In this Viewpoint, we aim to raise questions about the positioning of teachers and teacher knowledge in professional development networks. We contend that diverse purposes across professional development configurations labeled "networks" have been glossed over in the literature, obscuring important questions about teacher learning and its role in…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Change Agents, Educational Change, Professional Development
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Honig, Meredith I.; Venkateswaran, Nitya – American Journal of Education, 2012
Research on evidence use in school districts overwhelmingly focuses within schools on how school staff work with evidence including student performance data, research, and information about teaching quality. While important, this focus on schools reflects a mismatch with federal and state policies that demand not only that school staff work with…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Change, Central Office Administrators, Management Systems
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Harris, Alma – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline how collective capacity building is supporting system-wide reform in one country. It seeks to outline the way in which professional learning communities within, between and across schools are creating an infrastructure for improving professional practice and raising standards.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Professional Development
Ellwood, Cheryl Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Professional learning communities and teacher efficacy are at the core of many of the current educational reform models. The intention of this dissertation was to identify the correlation between professional learning communities and collective teacher efficacy for math data teams in the six Kaua'i Complex Area secondary schools, as measured by…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mathematics, Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes
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Yates, Anne – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Professional learning to embed educational reform may need to take account of the stage of the reform rather than previous teaching experience. As reforms move to the embedding phase, some teachers have become more expert in executing the reform than others and may be well placed to provide professional learning. In 2007, the New Zealand Ministry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Models, Academic Achievement
Mangrum, Jennifer R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Developing systems and opportunities for effective dialogue is critical if schools wish to help teachers work collectively. One school used Socratic seminars, structured conversations about selected texts. These seminars helped teachers to build relationships, share practice, and change curriculum and policy. The seminars also were critical to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Seminars, Educational Practices, Professional Development
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Anderson, Gary L.; Herr, Kathryn – Educational Researcher, 2011
This article takes issue with the notion that professional learning communities need to be more focused on teacher expertise through the use of online videos of lessons taught by expert teachers that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. The authors argue that the use of externally developed, research-based, and standards-aligned…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Video Technology, State Standards
Martin, Deb; Martin, Josh – Principal Leadership, 2010
Campuses are often in flux. When school leaders seek immediate solutions for problems, the status quo gives way to the next big thing. The new program brings excitement and hope yet some anxiety as teachers scramble to learn and apply it successfully. In a few short months, however, when things are not working quite as they should, teacher resolve…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Instructional Leadership, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Reflective Teaching
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Miranda, Twyla T. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
What is transformative professional development for educators? Ideally, teachers and school leaders are given multiple opportunities to revisit schemas about themselves and their learning communities, with the intent to transform practice, the school environment, and even themselves. In practice, three cohorts of teachers and school leaders…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Professional Development, Educational Change, Transformative Learning
Hill, Shannon D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the relationships between leadership practices of principals and strength of schools as sustainable professional learning communities. Strength of schools as professional learning communities was measured using the Professional Learning Communities Assessment; leadership practices were measured using the Leadership Practices…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Learning Activities, Interprofessional Relationship, Communities of Practice
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