Learning Together, Leading Together : Changing Schools Through Professional Learning Communities

Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 1(4) Shirley M. Hord 2. Professional Learning Communities: An Overview 5(10) Shirley M. Hord 3. Study Description: Investigating Five PLC Schools 15(5) D'Ette Cowan, Grace L. Fleming, Tara Leo Thompson, and Melanie s. Morrissey 4. Principals and Teachers as Continuous Learners 20(11) Grace L. Fleming 5. The Role of Trust Building and Its Relation to Collective Responsibility 31(14) Grace L. Fleming and Tara Leo Thompson 6. Creating and Sustaining a Professional Learning Community: Actions and Perceptions of Principal Leadership 45(13) Melanie S. Morrissey and D'Ette Cowan 7. Creating Co-Developers: Linking Research and Practice 58(13) D'Ette Cowan and Anita Pankake 8. Two Professional Learning Communities: Tales from the Field 71(13) Kristine Kiefer Hipp and Jane Bumpers Huffman 9. Change Diaries: Parallel Perspectives on school Change 84(12) Richela Chapman and Dawn Watson 10. One Principal's Story: Building a Community of Inquiry 96(18) Brian Riedlinger 11. Against All Odds: Reculturing a Troubled school 114(13) Dianne F. Olivier 12. The Superintendent's Influence on the Creation of a Professional Learning Community: A Story of School Transition 127(13) Anita Pankake 13. Building Teacher Leadership Within a Traditional School Structure 140(11) Gayle Moller Epilogue: Teaching and Shared Professional Practice A History of Resistance; A Future Dependent on Its Embrace 151(12) Melissa Capers References 163(4) About the Authors 167(6) Index 173