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Professional Learning Communities

• SEDL - Professional Learning Communities
  Through a review of the literature, this site explores the concept and operationalization of professional learning communities.
  http://www.sedl.org/pubs/change34/
• NCTAF: Strategies Create Strong Learning Communities
  Provides information on why learning communities are important, how they can work in a real-world context, and what steps need to be taken to transform schools into learning communities.
  http://www.nctaf.org/strategies/create/index.htm
• NSDC - Learning Communities
  Features information on staff development that improves the learning of all students organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district.
  http://www.nsdc.org/standards/learningcommunities.cfm
• Transform Your Group into a Team (PDF)
  Tools for Schools (Nov/Dec 2005 issue of NSDC), provides PLC resources school groups can use to establish norms and develop effective teams.
  http://www.nsdc.org/members/tools/tools11-05.pdf
• SERVE: Support for Professional Learning Teams
  The following 10 step presentation of tools and resources are designed to help teachers reflect on the benefits of working together in Professional Learning Teams.
  http://www.serve.org/EdQuality/ProfLearnCom/Tools.php
• Professional Learning Community Institute
  Features resources for this innovative professional development initiative designed to increase student achievement in selected schools by building the school improvement capacity of each school’s leadership team. 
  http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/development/teams/plci/index.shtm

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