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Research on STEM Professional Learning Communities: Attending to Teacher Learning, Agency, and Equity

Thu, April 24, 5:25 to 6:55pm MDT (5:25 to 6:55pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3A

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Abstract

Professional learning communities (PLCs) can be powerful sites for teachers to deepen their commitments to equity and educational justice. They are spaces where teachers often have the agency to define and work on problems specific to their classrooms and stand in contrast to pervasive forms of “sit and get” professional development. While many processes are at play in a PLC, there has been little attention in the literature on how equity and justice get taken up, how conversations in PLCs translate to shifts in classroom practice and the role of the socio-political contexts. This set of 12 papers from research groups across the country pushes empirical, methodological, and conceptual boundaries, by broadening how PLCs are conceptualized and studied.

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