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Shand, Robert; Batts, Jacqui – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
Collaboration among teachers is an important vehicle for teacher development, shared leadership, improving student achievement, building school culture, and attracting and retaining effective teachers. However, if professional collaborative environments are not truly diverse and inclusive or marginalize individual teachers or groups of teachers…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inclusion, Diversity (Faculty), Racism
Carey, Christopher J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Professional learning communities (PLCs) serve as a mechanism for schools and districts to promote teacher collaboration, collective inquiry, and a context to focus on student-centered learning processes. The study examined the perceptions of certificated staff and administrators pertaining to this practice. Three research questions guided this…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Administrators, Attitudes, Educational Practices
Verdi, Brian – Music Educators Journal, 2022
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are a prominent form of high-quality professional development (PD) that can provide opportunities for teachers to collaborate, share teaching strategies, reflect on teaching practices, and create mutually supportive and collegial teaching environments. PLCs hold much promise as a PD model for music…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Educational Improvement
Brodie, Karin – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This paper investigates how teachers' professional agency afforded and constrained their decisions to participate in or withdraw from professional learning communities (PLCs). While PLCs are often thought to position teachers as agents, explicit links between teacher agency and key features of PLCs have not been explored. Data from interviews with…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Communities of Practice, Correlation, Trust (Psychology)
Lee, Moosung; Kim, Jin Won; Mo, Youngmin; Walker, Allan David – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: Despite the continuous growth of empirical studies exploring professional learning communities (PLCs) across different education systems, little is known about PLC instruments developed and used in existing research. This article aims to capture a full picture of existing PLC instruments developed since 1990. In so doing, the authors also…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Measures (Individuals), Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development
Brodie, Karin; Chimhande, Tinoda – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2020
Professional learning communities can be important sites for teacher learning depending on the quality of the conversations in these communities. This paper investigates how different activities in teacher communities support different content and depth in teacher conversations, through examining the conversations of four professional learning…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Correlation, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers
Harvey, Frida; Nilsson, Per – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2022
Professional learning communities (PLC) have increasingly attracted attention in research on teachers' professional development. The aim of this study is to identify contradictions that can occur and be manifested in PLCs in mathematics. Identifying contradictions in PLCs are important, as the identification and resolution of contradictions are…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Mathematics Instruction, Communities of Practice, Teacher Leadership
Ismail, Kamarudin; Ishak, Rosnah; Kamaruddin, Siti Hajar – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Despite the ubiquity of professional learning communities (PLCs) among researchers, studies on PLCs have widely differed in terms of dimensions used to conceptualise them. Thus, the study aimed to validate the conceptual model consisting of PLCs practices. The study employed a quantitative method using a survey. Firstly, a pilot test was conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Factor Analysis, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes
Harvey, Frida; Teledahl, Anna – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2022
Professional Learning Communities (PLC) have been used increasingly in designing and discussing teachers' professional development, but how PLC are organised and framed differ between contexts. There is a lack of meta-level studies that aim to define and compare different ways of organising PLC. In this literature review of 32 studies,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Professional Development, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Educational Improvement
Xie, Xiuye – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2022
The purpose of this article is to present three professional engagement activities that are embedded in one online professional learning community named Health Teacher Central: (a) accessing to professional learning community; (b) pair and share; and (c) be an educated consumer. It is suggested that teacher educators can integrate these activities…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Communities of Practice, Professional Development, Faculty Development
Whalen, Sudie; Swain, Shannon; Fedele-McLeod, Mariann; Thacher, Marian – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2019
In 2016, the Office of Correctional Education in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation embarked on a process of implementing professional learning communities (PLCs) in all 35 California state prisons. The American Institutes for Research provided professional development and consulting on the PLC process. Through working to…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
Meesuk, Parinya; Wongrugsa, Angwara; Wangkaewhiran, Thipwimol – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2021
In Thailand, in-service teachers' professional development has been implemented through the Professional Learning Community (PLC) program for more than four years to develop teachers' sustainably. The sustainable development program has spread across the country in the Thai Teacher Council network. The research goals are as follows: (1) to…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Sustainable Development, Communities of Practice, School Administration
Gander, Michelle; McInnes, Margot – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose: The professional development needs of university professional staff are an under-researched area. More data were needed to understand their needs to ensure that employers invest their resources appropriately. A conceptual framework is developed for the workplace learning of career development activities using concepts of professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Faculty Development, Career Development, Communities of Practice
Ballangrud, Brit Olaug Bolken; Aas, Marit – Educational Research, 2022
Background: Despite widespread interest in the leadership and establishment of professional learning communities (PLCs), the ethical dimension may be overlooked. This article examines, in a Norwegian context, how principals have to deal with different sorts of ethical dilemmas in leading professional learning communities. Purpose: The study aimed…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Ethics, Decision Making, Leadership
Park, Joo-Ho; Byun, Soo-yong – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2021
Although much literature highlights the importance of teacher expectations for students' academic success, a very small number of studies used large-scale data to examine school-level factors associated with group-level teacher expectations -- defined as expectations that teachers have for many students in their class or school, rather than for a…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Administrator Role, Correlation