From setting the stage to engaging the community in understanding the purpose of collaborative professional learning teams, this volume covers what leaders need to know to implement more effective professional learning. Chapters focus on changing school culture, scheduling time, planning, using data, designs for professional learning, facilitating…

This set of six audiotapes provides a resource for educational leaders who want to create a new learning America--a learning community of the future where creative partnership and a new shared accountability between school, business, and the community emerges. Interviews were conducted with parents, researchers, teaching teams, building…