Strengthening and Enriching Your Professional Learning Community: The Art of Learning Together
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How can educators create a collective method of professional development that results in the genuine, sustained teacher learning essential to improving student achievement? That question is at the heart of this comprehensive and practical guide to process learning circles, a unique and powerful way to develop, strengthen, and enrich professional learning communities.
Table of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Effective Learning Communities
The Process Learning Circle Format
About the authors
Geoffrey Caine is a learning consultant, process coach, and writer. He is Codirector of the Caine Learning Center and Executive Director of the Natural Learning Research Institute. Geoffrey has an extensive background in adult education, having been a tenured member of a faculty of law in Australia, Education Services Manager of a national software company, and National Director of the Mind/Brain Network of the American Society of Training and Development. He consults throughout the world on the implementation of natural learning, and works with and gives talks to schools and educational organizations as well as nonprofits, foundations, and businesses. Geoffrey is also an international colleague of one of the world's leading-edge educational reform projects, Learning to Learn in South Australia. Geoffrey can be contacted at Caine Learning Center, Box 1847, Idyllwild, CA 92549. Phone: 951-659-0152. E-mail: Geoffrey@cainelearning.com.
Renate Caine has taught middle school in Reno, Nevada, and high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, and helped to establish a small charter school in her local community. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where her dissertation revealed that teachers' use of "I" messages and active-listening strategies in the classroom positively affected students' self-concepts and attitude toward school and teachers after only six months of use. She recently retired from 20 years as a college professor and is currently the executive director of the Natural Learning Research Institute. She is the coauthor of the original ASCD publication Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain and nine others. By employing many of the strategies in this publication over the years, Renate eliminated almost all discipline problems, and her students have won awards for their high academic achievement. She can be reached at renate@nlri.org.