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- Vol 6 RE: Chapter 6, App D, App E
professional learning communitiescollective responsibilityprofessional inquirydistributed leadershiporganizational trustshared purposeEdited book Evidence summaryAt a glance
Stoll and Louis assemble international research that both develops and complicates the idea of a professional learning community. A PLC is more than a congenial staff or a scheduled meeting: it combines shared values and purpose, collective responsibility for pupils, reflective professional inquiry, collaboration focused on learning, and inclusive participation.
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Chapters examine dialogue, trust, organizational memory, distributed leadership, support staff, networks, assessment, and links between professional and student learning. They also surface dilemmas involving imposed participation, superficial collaboration, conflicting purposes, exclusion, sustainability, and the temptation to label any team a community. Communities develop differently across contexts and life-cycle stages; structures such as time and routines matter, but culture and inquiry determine whether those structures improve practice. The collection therefore treats PLCs as demanding social and intellectual work.
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