This work offers practical advice gathered from 22 schools (elementary, middle, and high schools) that have successfully modelled or are creating professional learning communities.

Product Description: Growing discontent with the performance of educational institutions is common in the USA today and little is being done to address the real problem - that of the need to reform and restructure the entire educational system. A key issue in this reform is the training and development of leaders in educational administration; as experienced "leaders" retire, so new professionals are called to assume the mantle of the "old hands" and vital new opportunities exist for those willing to take up the challenge...read more