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Charner-Laird, Megin; Ippolito, Jacy; Dobbs, Christina L. – Journal of School Leadership, 2016
This study investigates the experiences of teacher leaders working to facilitate professional learning communities (PLCs) focused on inquiry into disciplinary literacy at the high school level. Specifically, we examine the moves that team leaders made to preserve focus and learning within their PLCs and how participants experienced their…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice, Literacy
Ippolito, Jacy; Dobbs, Christina L.; Charner-Laird, Megin – Journal of Staff Development, 2014
This article describes an initiative designed to improve the content-area literacy skills of all students at a Massachusetts high school and to demonstrate the important role teacher leaders play in bridging the various elements of school improvement efforts. Meeting students' language and literacy needs within content-area classrooms is becoming…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
Dobbs, Christina L.; Ippolito, Jacy; Charner-Laird, Megin – Professional Development in Education, 2017
In order to be effective, professional development efforts are most promising if they are context specific and focus on supporting collaboration. Increasingly, schools initiate professional development with small groups of teachers, with the intention that the effects of the initiatives will spill over to other school personnel. This study follows…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Qualitative Research, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
Dobbs, Christina L.; Ippolito, Jacy; Charner-Laird, Megin – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
Effective and authentic communities of practice in schools have the potential to support teachers in improving their instructional practices around perennial challenges, such as improving the literacy skills of all students. But before they can achieve such goals, communities of practice take time to build, effort to sustain, and ongoing support…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement, Communities of Practice