A Study on the Development of a Professional Learning Community for a Medium-Sized High School Faculty

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dc.contributor.advisorHolland, Patricia E.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCraig, Cheryl J.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberEmerson, Michael W.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLeBlanc, Robert M.
dc.creatorHartsoch, Glen 1968-
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-11T18:12:45Z
dc.date.available2015-02-11T18:12:45Z
dc.date.createdAugust 2012
dc.date.issued2012-08
dc.date.updated2015-02-11T18:12:45Z
dc.description.abstractProfessional Learning Communities (PLCs) represent a concept that is growing in many parts of the United States. They are an attempt to create an environment in which teachers feel comfortable working together, sharing, and growing as a community of educators. The goal is to improve student performance. This dissertation provides a narrative of a high school currently implementing a PLC on a faculty, which has not had much experience with such a concept. The principal of the school faces challenges as he works in good faith to implement what he believes as proven tactics to improve student performance. At the same time, surveys of the school under study have shown the faculty and other community stakeholders have lost faith in the ability of their school following initial introduction of overlaying PLCs. Teachers find themselves assigned to department and small learning community PLCs. The faculty is focused but unable to articulate their sense of focus in a mission statement and confused on expected expectations. Focus groups that included the entire faculty of the school describe communities of dedicated teachers that desire the conditions a PLC would afford them but remain confused and unsure as they enter into a “flattened” world in which they will need to take more ownership of their own practice at a time in which others are seeking to take control of that ownership as well.
dc.description.departmentCurriculum and Instruction, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/896
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectPLC
dc.subjectFaculty Development
dc.subjectProfessionalism
dc.subjectCommunities of Continuous Inquiry Focus Groups
dc.subject.lcshEducational leadership
dc.titleA Study on the Development of a Professional Learning Community for a Medium-Sized High School Faculty
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Education
thesis.degree.departmentCurriculum and Instruction, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Leadership
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.majorEducational Leadership and Cultural Studies
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Education

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