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Educators As Learners: Creating a Professional Learning Community in Your School

Edited by Penelope J. Wald and Michael S. Castleberry

Foreword— by Roland Barth

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part I: Cornerstones

Chapter 1. Realigning for Change

Chapter 2. Learning Communities—An Ethos for Professional Change

Chapter 3. Leading Professional Learning Communities

Part II: Process

Chapter 4. Identity of the Learning Community

Chapter 5. Learning as a Community

Chapter 6. Enhancing Capacity to Learn

Part III: Tools for Learning

Tool 1. Force Field Analysis (See Chapter 4)

Tool 2. Probable and Preferred Future (See Chapter 4)

Tool 3. Affinity (See Chapter 4, 5 and 6)

Tool 4. Open Space (See Chapter 4 and 5)

Tool 5. Think, Pair, Share (See Chapter 5)

Tool 6. Communication Norms for Collaborative Groups (See Chapter 6)

Tool 7. Left-Hand Column (See Chapter 7)

Tool 8. The Pyramid (See Chapter 6)

Chapter 9. Ground Rules (See Chapter 6)

Tool 10 Communication Patterns (See Chapter 6)

Glossary

References and Bibliography

Epilogue

About the Editors and Contributors

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