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Leadership And The Professional Learning Community, Sandra L. Gaspar
Leadership And The Professional Learning Community, Sandra L. Gaspar
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of this study was to describe the transformation of one small, rural school district’s professional development program. The study focused on the actions that school leaders took to replace a traditional, workshop-based program that was deemed ineffective with a new professional development model. The new model was designed to create professional learning communities by taking advantage of and further developing teacher leadership.
Within this mixed-methods case study, both survey data and interview data were collected. The study describes (a) internal and external factors that influenced the change, (b) selection and implementation of the model, (c) the cycle of …