School Improvement Networks and Collaborative Inquiry

School Improvement Networks and Collaborative Inquiry
Author: Mauricio Pino Yancovic
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787697371

This book describes the processes and challenges of implementing collaborative practices in School Improvement Networks, focussing specifically on examples from Chile. The Chilean case is significant for other challenging contexts, particularly rural communities, that still seek to implement collaborative inquiry projects.

The Transformative Power of Collaborative Inquiry

The Transformative Power of Collaborative Inquiry
Author: Jenni Donohoo
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 150633850X

Foster reflective teacher leadership and make real change happen! Teachers are powerful change agents in the on-going process of school improvement. This insightful, must-read companion guide to Donohoo’s best-selling Collaborative Inquiry for Educators helps school leaders develop a sustainable professional learning culture. Practical suggestions and in-depth research shed light on your path as you explore the benefits and challenges of adopting authentic teacher collaboration across schools and districts. Learn valuable lessons from leaders in the field and discover: A rationale and framework for engaging in inquiry The vital conditions needed to ensure systemwide collaboration Common pitfalls and the four stages of school improvement

Networks for Learning

Networks for Learning
Author: Chris Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351996975

Educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on Professional Learning Networks in order to facilitate teacher development and encourage school and school system improvement. However, despite the understanding that PLNs can contribute significantly to improving teaching practice and student achievement, there are key challenges regarding their use. These challenges include: ensuring PLNs can provide opportunities for generating and sharing knowledge within schools enabling teachers and professionals to direct their own development helping individuals change their practices through inquiry-led approaches facilitating partnerships which work across a variety of stakeholders In this new edited volume, Brown and Poortman evaluate these challenges from both a theoretical and practical approach. A multitude of perspectives from a team of international contributors covers: the importance of Professional Learning Networks the use of evidence within PLNs the impact of inter-school networks international cases of networks and communities the promotion and sustainability of PLNs Also featuring case studies and exemplars to contextualise sustainable learning networks, Networks For Learning is an accessible and thoroughly-researched book, which will be essential reading and a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and school leaders who are interested in developing professional learning networks.

School Improvement Networks and Collaborative Inquiry

School Improvement Networks and Collaborative Inquiry
Author: Mauricio Pino Yancovic
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787697355

This book describes the processes and challenges of implementing collaborative practices in School Improvement Networks, focussing specifically on examples from Chile. The Chilean case is significant for other challenging contexts, particularly rural communities, that still seek to implement collaborative inquiry projects.

Professional Learning Networks

Professional Learning Networks
Author: Leyton Schnellert
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787698912

This book illustrates key attributes of professional learning networks that build educators’ ownership, practice, and expertise and highlights the potential of PLNs to address questions of equity, both for educators working in rural communities who have limited access to professional development and diverse learners and equity-seeking communities.

Collaborative Professionalism

Collaborative Professionalism
Author: Andy Hargreaves
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-05-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506328172

Ensure Conversations About Collaboration Get Results. This book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration. Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including: Ten core tenets, including Collective Efficacy, Collaborative Inquiry, and Collaborating With Students. Graphics indicating how educators can move from mere professional collaboration to the deep and transformative work of Collaborative Professionalism. Analysis of which collaborative practices educators should start doing, keep doing, and stop doing Collaboration can be one of your most powerful educational tools when used correctly, and turned into action. This book shows you how.

Dimensions of Professional Learning

Dimensions of Professional Learning
Author: Amanda Berry
Publisher: Brill / Sense
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The contributors to this volume explore challenges and dilemmas around professional learning that confront educators in Australia. The book is organised around three dimensions of professional learning: professionalism, identity formation and communal sites of professional learning. It addresses important questions. In what ways do policies and practices mediate the construction of 'a professional' among current and future educators? How do communal spaces shape the professional learning of educators? What are the tensions that emerge in the construction of professional identity through professional learning? As a whole, all chapters provide insight into the dynamic nature of 'professional becoming'.

Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa

Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Miriam Mason
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1801175047

Lessons in School Improvement from Sub-Saharan Africa describes the planning, delivery and evaluation of an improvement programme by EducAid. The evaluation showed that children in schools, whose teachers had taken part in the programme, made more progress in literacy, attendance and behaviour than children in control schools.

School-to-School Collaboration

School-to-School Collaboration
Author: Paul Wilfred Armstrong
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2022-09-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1800436688

Taking a global perspective, the chapters within this book follow a common framework to explore how macro-level factors help to create the conditions in which school-to-school collaboration is likely to succeed or fail ‘on the ground’.

Leadership for School Improvement

Leadership for School Improvement
Author: Cherie B. Gaines
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1641136049

As the inaugural issue in the Leadership for School Improvement (LSI) Special Interest Group (SIG) Book Series, this volume serves as a reflection on the foundations of the field of school improvement. Contents include connections between school improvement and the agency of principals, districts, universities, and policy. This volume will be placed in the school improvement literature with examinations of evolution, trends, policies, and future foci in the field of school improvement. This book is rich in research and literature about school improvement, school effectiveness, and school reform policy and implementation and thus holds significance for educational practitioners, scholars, and policy makers at all levels.