Teachers Create a Professional Learning Community to be a Place of their Own

dc.creator	Della R. Leavitt
dc.creator	Marjory F. Palius
dc.creator	Robert D. Babst
dc.creator	Ryan Donegan
dc.creator	Jarrett L. Lampkin
dc.creator	Michael Smith
dc.creator	Patricia A. Whitford
dc.date	2013-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:14:46Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:14:46Z
dc.identifier	2328-3610
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/cf46436b6aa74442a15947037fd35857
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/17100
dc.description	In Spring, 2012, seven New Jersey middle school mathematics teachers volunteered to lead an afterschool Professional Learning Community. The teachers set the meeting format, selected topics, and rotated facilitation of six 90-minute sessions. A university researcher, working within a National Science Foundation-sponsored Mathematics/Science Partnership, designed the project to investigate how, if at all, these activities would enhance teachers’ leadership. The researcher videotaped the teachers’ meetings, elicited written reflections, conducted interviews, and analyzed these data. Emergent themes included cohesiveness,commitment,focus on practice, respectful participation in controversies, changes in confidence and leadership. All seven teachers planned to continue meeting during the 2012-2013 school year.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Rutgers Graduate School of Education
dc.relation	http://maereview.org/index.php/maer/article/view/6
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2328-3610
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Mid-Atlantic Education Review, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2013)
dc.subject	teacher leadership, professional learning communities, practitioner inquiry, teacher change, teacher empowerment
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Teachers Create a Professional Learning Community to be a Place of their Own
dc.type	article