Table of Contents for

Reculturing Schools as Professional Learning Communities

• Part 1: The Challenge of Developing PLCs
  
  • Overview of Professional Learning Communities
    Anita M. Pankake and Gayle Moller
  • Responding to the Challenge
    
• Part 2: From Initiation to Implementation: Dimensions of a PLC
  
  • Shared and Supportive Leadership
    
  • Shared Values and Vision
    
  • Collective Learning and Application
    
  • Shared Personal Practice
    
  • Supportive Conditions
    
• Part 3: Assessing and Reculturing Schools
  
  • Assessing Schools as PLCs
    Dianne F. Olivier
  • The PLC Connection to School Improvement
    D'Ette Fly Cowan
• Part 4: Five Case Studies
  
  • Case Study Overview
    
  • Case Study #1: Role Expectations in Schools Moving to Site-Based Leadership
    Jane Bumpers Huffman
  • Case Study #2: Nurturing the Human Side: A Crucial Component for PLCs
    Danna Beaty and Anita Pankake
  • Case Study #3: Trust as a Foundation in Building a Learning Community
    Kristine Kiefer Hipp
  • Case Study #4: The Role of Principal Commitment in Creating Learning Communities
    Gayle Moller
  • Case Study #5: Reculturing a School in Crisis
    Dianne F. Olivier
• Part 5: From Implementation to Institutionalization
  
  • Lessons Learned
    

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Paper

1-57886-053-9

October 2003

192 pp