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Direct linkDavid Michael Sims – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One of the biggest problems facing American educators is the challenge to increase student achievement in the era of accountability and high stakes testing (DuFour et al., 2016). Student test scores and achievement remain stagnant across south Georgia (GADOE, 2018a; GADOE, 2019b). One reform used by schools to help increase student achievement is…
Descriptors: Principals, Experience, Attitudes, Communities of Practice
LaDwan Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research has indicated that there is a direct link between student academic achievement and school quality. Research has also indicated that the leadership style of school principals influence teacher attributes, from adeptness and job contentment to academic focus and engagement levels. Even though the research on professional learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Environment, Communities of Practice, Middle School Teachers
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Download full textMcBrayer, Juliann Sergi; Chance, Julie; Pannell, Summer; Wells, Pamela – Educational Planning, 2018
Through collaboration between one rural southeastern university and a local rural school system of high-poverty in southeast Georgia (a pseudonym, Justice County School System [JCSS]), a mixed method case study analysis was conducted to examine a system-wide professional learning initiative. The goal of this initiative was to provide professional…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice, School Personnel, Rural Areas
Hardinger, Regina Gail – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many educational administrators in Georgia continue to struggle with low student academic achievement and low high school graduation rates. DuFour's professional learning community (PLC) theory suggests a positive relationship between levels of PLC implementation and academic achievement and between levels of PLC implementation and graduation…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate
Betts, Herbert Alexander, III – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between professional learning community (PLC) characteristics and levels of trust, and their impact on student academic achievement in fifth and eighth grade mathematics, based on Georgia's state academic test. This research was designed to answer the following questions: is student…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Trust (Psychology), Academic Achievement, Correlation
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2007
This paper is a response to a request asking for information on professional learning communities (PLCs) and their effect on teachers, students, and school culture. In order to respond to the request, a search for articles related to the subject was conducted using combinations of words such as "professional learning communities,"…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Research, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
Black, Linda; Neel, John H.; Benson, Gwen – National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2008
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) and Georgia State University (GSU) developed a model for induction of new teachers in urban high need schools. A model induction program, developed over the three-year implementation period, includes: (1) The BRIDGE (Building Resources: Induction and Development for Georgia…
Descriptors: Models, Beginning Teacher Induction, Urban Education, Student Needs
