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Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important?
Issues... about Change, Vol. 6, No. 1

Issues... about Change

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Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important?

Attributes of Professional Learning Communities

The literature on professional learning communities repeatedly gives attention to five attributes of such organizational arrangements:

  1. supportive and shared leadership,
  2. collective creativity,
  3. shared values and vision,
  4. supportive conditions, and
  5. shared personal practice.

Each of these is discussed briefly in this paper.

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