The Handbook of Leadership and Professional Learning Communities

This book is the first to integrate the topics of professional development, educational leadership, and social justice. Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders and educators tackle the challenges of building successful professional learning communities. This wide-ranging text will prove indispensable for any democratically accountable leader committed to organizational change through communities of practice. The book contains four sections: organization and the learning community, democracy and the learning community, technology and the learning community, and mentoring and the learning community. Descriptions of conceptual frameworks are supported by strategies for implementation and success. Introducing Collaborative Communities With Edge And Vitality / Carol A. Mullen -- Part I: Organization And The Learning Community. Understanding Schools As Organizations: Implications For Realizing Professional Learning Communities / Bob L. Johnson, Jr. -- Forming School-university Partnerships To Create Professional Learning Communities That Improve Schools / Leonard R. Goduto, Virginia Doolittle, & Donald Leake -- Developing Professional Learning Communities In A University-public School Partnership / Robert V. Bullough, Jr. & Steven C. Baugh -- Professional Development Schools: Learning Communities For Leaders And Teachers As Change Agents / Maria Sudeck, Virginia Doolittle, & Peter Rattigan -- Teacher Education Is Everybody's Business: Northern Guilford High School--a Professional Development Community / Carl Lashley, Jewell Cooper, Jessica Mccall, Joseph Yeager, & Christine Ricci --^ The University Connection: Transformational Learning That Enhances Professional Learning Communities / Sandra Harris, Vicky Farrow, & Hollis Lowery-moore -- A Vision For Linking Pre-k And Higher Education Through Learning Communities / John R. Hoyle & Timothy M. Kutka -- Part Ii: Democracy And The Learning Community. Forming Culturally Responsive Learning Communities In Demographically Changing Schools / Camille Wilson Cooper, Romy Allen, & Silvia Cristina Bettez -- Transforming The Space Of Schools Into Learning Communities: Teacher Leadership As Pedagogy Of Democratic Place / Patrick M. Jenlink & Karen Embry Jenlink -- Catalysts And Barriers: Practitioner Concepts Of Professional Learning Communities As Democracies In Action / Carol A. Mullen & Sandra Harris -- Faculty Of Color Constructing Communities At Predominantly White Institutions / Donyell L Roseboro & C.p. Gause --^ Support For Women Leaders: The Visible And The Invisible / Jane H. Applegate, Penelope M. Earley, & Jill Mattuck Tarule -- Part Iii: Technology And The Learning Community. Professional Learning Communities And The Culture Of Digital Technology: A Philosophic Inquiry / Glenn M. Hudak -- Virtual Learning Communities: Encountering Digital Culture, Politics, And Capital / Roymieco A. Carter & Leila E. Villaverde -- Graduate Students' And Preservice Teachers' Electronic Communications In A Community Of Practice / Janet C. Richards, Susan V. Bennett, & Kim G. Thomas -- Part Iv: Mentoring And The Learning Community. Leadership In K-12 Learning Communities: Activism And Access Through Inter-generational Understanding / Dannielle Joy Davis, Lisa Green-derry, And Jovan Wells -- Facilitating Professional Learning Communities Through Mentor Teacher Preparation / Susan D. Myers & Helenrose Fives --^ Peer Learning Communities In Action: Coaching To Improve Preservice Teaching / Caroline R. Pryor & Barbara D. O'donnell -- Conclusion: Community Change Through Activism: Insights And Lessons / Carol A. Mullen. Edited By Carol A. Mullen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 Acknowledgments......Page 18 1 Introducing Collaborative Communities With Edge and Vitality......Page 20 Section I: Organization and the Learning Community......Page 30 Introduction to Section I......Page 32 2 Understanding Schools as Organizations: Implications for Realizing Professional Learning Communities......Page 36 3 Forming School–University Partnerships to Create Professional Learning Communities That Improve Schools......Page 48 4 Developing Professional Learning Communities in a University–Public School Partnership......Page 58 5 Professional Development Schools: Learning Communities for Leaders and Teachers as Change Agents......Page 70 6 Teacher Education Is Everybody’s Business: Northern Guilford High School—A Professional Development Community......Page 78 7 The University Connection: Transformational Learning That Enhances Professional Learning Communities......Page 92 8 A Vision for Linking Pre-K and Higher Education Through Learning Communities......Page 104 Section II: Democracy and the Learning Community......Page 118 Introduction to Section II......Page 120 9 Forming Culturally Responsive Learning Communities in Demographically Changing Schools......Page 122 10 Transforming the Space of Schools into Learning Communities: Teacher Leadership as Pedagogy of Democratic Place......Page 134 11 Catalysts and Barriers: Practitioner Concepts of Professional Learning Communities as Democracies in Action......Page 146 12 Faculty of Color Constructing Communities at Predominantly White Institutions......Page 158 13 Support for Women Leaders: The Visible and the Invisible......Page 170 Section III: Technology and the Learning Community......Page 180 Introduction to Section III......Page 182 14 Professional Learning Communities and the Culture of Digital Technology: A Philosophic Inquiry......Page 184 15 Virtual Learning Communities: Encountering Digital Culture, Politics, and Capital......Page 196 16 Graduate Students’ and Preservice Teachers’ Electronic Communications in a Community of Practice......Page 208 Section IV: Mentoring and the Learning Community......Page 220 Introduction to Section IV......Page 222 17 Leadership in K–12 Learning Communities: Activism and Access Through Intergenerational Understanding......Page 224 18 Facilitating Professional Learning Communities Through Mentor Teacher Preparation......Page 234 19 Peer Learning Communities in Action: Coaching to Improve Preservice Teaching......Page 248 20 Conclusion: Community Change Through Activism—Insights and Lessons......Page 260 Notes on Contributors......Page 266 E......Page 272 W......Page 273 "Dr. Mullen has put together a book that reminds us of the synergy and possibilities found in collaborations dedicated to shared transformational learning. Leadership preparation centered within considerations of social justice and equity mandates such a book as this one. The collective voices in this volume are a thoughtful addition to the libraries of program developers, school leaders, and those committed to preparing them." - Autumn Tooms, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Kent State University "The Handbook of Leadership and Professional Learning Communities expands current literature about professional learning communities. Rather than perspectives by a single author or small team of authors, this edited collection features writings by both university scholars and instructors and K-12 practitioners. Because the contributors have different foci, the resources cited in the various chapters provide readers with a broad literature base, making the book suitable for use in educator preparation programs and practitioner studies. This edited volume is an important - and unique - contribution to the field." - Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Kentucky Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders and educators tackle the challenges of building successful professional learning communities. This wide-ranging text will prove indispensable for any democratically accountable leader committed to organizational change through communities of practice. This book is the first to integrate the topics of professional development, educational leadership, and social justice This book aims to integrate the topics of professional development, educational leadership, and social justice. Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders and educators tackle the challenges of building successful professional learning communities