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  • Building School-Based Teacher Learning Communities

  • Professional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement
  • Milbrey W. McLaughlin & Joan E. Talbert
  • Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 0807746797
  • $21.95
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Building on extensive evidence that school-based teacher learning communities improve student outcomes, this book lays out an agenda to develop and sustain collaborative professional cultures.

McLaughlin and Talbert-foremost scholars of school change and teaching contexts-provide an inside look at the processes, resources, and system strategies that are necessary to build vibrant school-based teacher learning communities.

Offering a compelling, straightforward blueprint for action, this book:

  • Takes a comprehensive look at the problem of improving the quality of teaching across the United States, based on evidence and examples from the authors’ nearly two decades of research.
  • Demonstrates how and why school-based teacher learning communities are bottom-line requirements for improved instruction.
  • Outlines the resources and supports needed to build and sustain a long-term school-based teacher professional community.
  • Discusses the nature of high-quality professional development to support learning and changes in teaching.
  • Details the roles and responsibilities of policymakers at all levels of the school system.

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