Professional Learning Community as a Reform Initiative: A Conceptual Framework for Effecting Change

• In Event: Learning Communities, Context, and Positionality in Supervision and Instructional Leadership

Abstract

This paper presents a conceptual framework based on reviews of research on professional learning communities. The framework describes the essential components that need to exist or be developed by school leaders intending to develop the school as a PLC as a way of bring about reform.

Author

• Daisy E. Arredondo Rucinski, The University of Alabama