Description

Learning Communities: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to: 

• Engaging in Continuous Improvement,
• Developing Collective Responsibility, and
• Creating Alignment and Accountability

This episode explores Learning Forward’s new Professional Learning Standards, focusing on the first standard – Learning Communities.

In learning communities, according to Roland Barth, the actions of educators include:

• Talking with one another about our practices
• Sharing our craft knowledge
• Observing one another while we are engaged in our practice
• ROOTING for one another’s success

Hord and Sommers share, “As a learning community, ask these questions:

• What are you learning?
• Why are you learning that?
• How are you learning?
• How are you SHARING with others in your school?”

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