Exploring the Potential of Co-Teaching Nested Within Professional Learning Networks

• In Event: Knowledge Mobilization in Professional Learning Networks

Abstract

This research investigated whether structuring a professional learning network (PLN) to include school-based co-teaching partners would amplify educators’ success in taking up and adapting evidence-based practices as meaningful in their contexts. Our research questions were: (1) What conditions did educators identify in the PLN overall that supported their co-construction of knowledge and practice development together? and (2) How did including co-teaching partners in the PLN help participants to mobilize knowledge and/or practices in the contexts they were working?

Authors

• Leyton Schnellert, The University of British Columbia

• Deborah L. Butler, The University of British Columbia