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Professional Learning Networks: Facilitating Transformation in Diverse Contexts With Equity-Seeking Communities

Sun, April 11, 4:10 to 5:40pm EDT (4:10 to 5:40pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Educational Change Paper and Symposium Sessions

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Professional learning networks (PLNs) offer educators the opportunity to develop professionally by positioning them as inquirers into their own practice and authors and agents of situated innovation. In this symposium, six examples of PLNs are introduced to highlight the potential of PLNs to address questions of equity, both for educators working in remote and rural communities who have limited access to professional development and other resources, and diverse learners and equity-seeking communities (e.g., Indigenous communities, non-dominant cultural groups). Scholar, practitioner, and policy audiences can draw from these case studies to inform equity-oriented PLNs centering the importance of diverse learners' and communities' funds of knowledge and identity, and rural place in educational transformation efforts.

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