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Professional Learning Communities
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Professional Learning Communities/Instructional Coaching
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> Order Print Package
[includes two 13-page articles, $10]
> Download Professional Learning
Communities [PDF: 16 pages]
> Download Instructional Coaching
[PDF: 16 pages]
Two key strategies are central to the Annenberg Institute's work on professional development systems: professional learning communities (small groups of teachers, administrators, community members, and others who work together to improve professional practice); and instructional coaching (school-based, educator-led professional learning for groups of teachers in specific content areas). This package includes two publications describing these strategies and what we have learned about using them effectively.
COMPLETE LIST
- Beyond Instructional Leadership: The Changing Shape of Leadership
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by Deborah King
Annenberg Institute Principal Associate
Educational Leadership (May 2002)
> Table of contents, abstract, ordering
Article about how the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's work with principals, superintendents, and other educators yields insights into the collaborative leading and learning going on in today's schools. (2002)
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- Coaches in the High School Classroom: Studies in Implementing High School Reform
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by Molly Schen, Sanjiv Rao, and Ricardo Dobles
> Download Report [PDF: 56 pages, 3 MB]
> Schools for a New Society project information
The Annenberg Institute has produced a set of portraits of high school literacy coaches working in two sites that are part of Carnegie Corporation's Schools for a New Society initiative. The 44-page publication, Coaches in the High School Classroom, features close-ups of six coaches in Boston and Houston. Intended to provide fuel for discussion, the portraits are interspersed with guiding questions and followed by several tools that can be used for further discussion, assessment, and analysis of coaching programs. (2005)
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- Critical Friends Groups in Action
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> Order Video Package
This two-tape print-and-video package offers an inside look at how groups of educators from two very different schools — in Pasadena, California, and Amherst, New Hampshire — have developed habits and practices to support collaborative work. A group coach offers written reflections on what one group has learned over three years together. The video package was created by the National School Reform Faculty, formerly housed at the Annenberg Institute and now housed at Harmony School. (1998)
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- Critical Issues In School Reform
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> Series Web site 
> View individual program videos
[free with registration]
> Purchase series on VHS
[8 video programs (from 30 to 45 minutes in length),
workshop guide, and Web site; $175]
A three-part television series produced in collaboration with the Annenberg Channel, part of the eight-part series Critical Issues In School Reform, for teachers, administrators, parents, and anyone involved in or interested in school improvement. The programs explore new practices in which schools and communities can work together to improve student learning. (1999)
The programs explore new practices in:
- Public Engagement (3 programs)
How can schools and communities work together to improve student learning? - Professional Collaboration (2 programs)
How can teachers and administrators work together in their own schools to improve teaching practice and student learning? - Learning from Student Work (3 programs)
How can the teachers looking together at their students work help them reflect on and improve their teaching practice?
NOTE: The Annenberg Channel is a free satellite channel for schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations, public access channels, and other non-commercial community agencies. It runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and airs the video programs funded by Annenberg Media. It is available free to any agency with a Ku-band satellite dish and a DigiCipher II satellite receiver.
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- Public Engagement (3 programs)
- Looking at Teaching and Learning Through Peer Observation
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> Order Video Package
[two 30-minute videotapes, 24-page facilitator's guide,
viewer's introduction; $50]
This video package highlights peer observation — a promising method for building collaborative learning and reflection among adults in schools and districts. It is designed for teacher leaders, principals, and district administrators. The videotapes give viewers a close-up look at peer observations as they are used in seven very different schools. The facilitator's guide contains suggestions for conducting video-discussion workshops on peer observation and guidelines for promoting peer observation practices. (2002)
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- Principals in the Line of Fire: The Challenges of Authentic Leadership
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> Order Video Package
[30-minute videotape, facilitator's guide; $50]
Principals often find themselves “in the line of fire” from teachers, parents, community, district administrators, and students. It can be a lonely job. Meet four colleagues who will share with you their ideas for positive change and the challenges they have met in promoting it. This package offers a first step in creating a forum for leadership growth through peer exchange and support. (2001)
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- Professional Community and the Problems of Change
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An Address by Robert Evans
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[58-minute videotape, viewer's guide; $30]
In this address to a national gathering of the National School Reform Faculty, organizational psychologist Robert Evans addresses teachers and administrators who are seeking to improve their standards and improve teaching and learning. (1999)
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- Professional Learning Communities/Instructional Coaching
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> Order Print Package
[includes two 13-page articles, $10]
> Download Professional Learning
Communities
[PDF: 16 pages, 632 KB]
> Download Instructional Coaching
[PDF: 16 pages, 607 KB]
Two key strategies are central to the Annenberg Institute's work on professional development systems that support real improvements in teaching and learning: professional learning communities (small groups of teachers, administrators, community members, and other stakeholders who collectively examine and work to improve professional practice); and instructional coaching (school-based, educator-led professional learning for groups of teachers in specific content areas). The Institute has developed a package that includes two new publications describing these strategies and what we have learned about using them effectively. (2004)
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- Stages of Team Development: Lessons from the Struggles of Site-Based Management
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by Nancy Mohr and Alan Dichter
> Order Print Copy [16 pages, $6]
> Download Report [PDF: 18 pages, 535 KB]
The benefits of site-based management and teacher empowerment have been widely touted, but the reality does not always live up to the promise. Drawing on their more than 30 years of experience in school reform, Nancy Mohr and Alan Dichter talk about the purpose of shared decision making (it's for the students, not the adults) and about what they now know about helping a faculty become a learning organization (it's a developmental process, with identifiable stages). Mohr and Dichter use their own experiences to illustrate how the process plays out and is required at each stage along the way. (2002)
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- Toward Understanding: Observations from Two Classrooms
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> Order Print Copy [$8]
by Barbara S. Powell
An exploration of what it means to "teach for understanding" through the eyes of students and teachers who are part of a network of schools seeking to teach for understanding. (1996)
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