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Assessing The Fidelity Of School-Level Professional Learning Community Implementation, William W. Thigpen Ii
Assessing The Fidelity Of School-Level Professional Learning Community Implementation, William W. Thigpen Ii
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As schools face increasing accountability, many have turned to professional learning communities (PLCs) as a possible solution. The challenge is that many schools are not implementing PLCs with fidelity. It is imperative that school leaders assess PLC practices to ensure that critical components are being implemented effectively. This research provides a framework for school leaders to assess school leader, teacher, and support staff perceptions of various PLC dimensions. Descriptive statistics were used to determine levels of agreement with statements related to six PLC dimensions. A one-way univariate analysis of variance tests (ANOVA) was used to analyze differences in mean …
A Phenomenological Exploration Of Principals' Influence On Teacher Attrition, Kellie E. Gebhardt
A Phenomenological Exploration Of Principals' Influence On Teacher Attrition, Kellie E. Gebhardt
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Classroom teachers' decisions to leave the profession negatively affect the educational experience of the students, burden the remaining teachers, and drain school districts of funds that should go to students but instead are spent on recruiting and training. This phenomenological study examined the experiences of former classroom teachers to determine the role their school principals may have played in their decisions to leave the profession. Ten former elementary school teachers from South Carolina participated in the study. The researcher collected data using interviews; a semi-structured interview protocol was created from current literature and designed to align with the research …