Late last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation published a widely noted study intended to explore what teachers want when it comes to professional development. But particularly on the important ...

The concept of the professional learning community (PLC) has been embraced widely in schools as a means for teachers to engage in professional development leading to enhanced pupil learning. However, ...

Shirley Hord, Learning Forward’s scholar laureate, has focused her career on research about and practice of effective professional learning communities. Here she answers an educator’s question about ...

A learning community, external to university teaching, can support democratic mentoring and help to train a highly professional, broadly educated medical intelligentsia who are also well versed in ...

The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 114, No. 1 (September 2013), pp. 118-137 (20 pages) AbstractDespite the popularity of professional learning communities (PLCs) among researchers, practitioners, and ...

Salesforce has a long-standing tradition of promoting professional learning communities around its software products. In doing so, it has bucked a widespread emphasis in talent management circles on ...

it is well documented that teachers who habitually examine their shared work based on inquiry, observation, analysis of data, dialogue, and experimentation tend to be more effective than those who are ...