商品簡介
This book is broken into five parts. Part 1 describes the book, its purposes, history, and theory behind the use of PLCs as a school reform measure. Part 2 presents the evidence for using PLCs in elementary schools. Part 3 presents the evidence for PLC use in middle schools. Part 4 describes how the PLC may affect change in high schools, the district level, and in policy around the state and nation. Part 5 synthesizes both the published and unpublished research on this popular innovation for school reform and provides guidance for practitioner, researchers, policy makers and interested members of the public.
作者簡介
Daisy Arredondo Rucinski is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington. She has been a biology, Spanish, and algebra teacher, a high school assistant principal, an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, a deputy superintendent, and a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Santiago, Chile. Her research interests are instructional leadership and supervision, professional development, school effectiveness, and reflective learning. She writes about these topics and related policy issues.
