Multiple Mirrors: Reflections on the Creation of Professional Learning Communities

Multiple Mirrors is a collection of stories written by the co-developers who worked with SEDL in assisting schools to create professional learning communities in a sample of schools. It includes an introduction by Shirley Hord and Jody Westbrook. The stories reflect the experiences of schools trying to develop a professional learning community and make a change for the better. Although the schools changed with a varying degree of success, their stories offer many lessons in establishing trust and illustrate the role that leadership and collaboration play in the change process.

SEDL has published several publications about Professional Learning Communities:

• Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research and Practice
• Professional Learning Communities - Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement
• Professional Learning Communities - An Ongoing Exploration
• Multiple Mirrors: Reflections on the Creation of Professional Learning Communities
• Schools as Learning Communities - Issues About Change, Volume 4, Number 1
• Professional Learning Communities: What Are They and Why Are They Important? - Issues About Change, Volume 6, Number 1
• Creating a Professional Learning Community: Cottonwood Creek School - Issues About Change, Volume 6, Number 2
• Assessing a School Staff as a Community of Professional Learners - Issues About Change, Volume 7, Number 1
• Principals and Teachers: Continuous Learners - Issues About Change, Volume 7, Number 2
• Launching Professional Learning Communities: Beginning Actions - Issues About Change, Volume 8, Number 1
• Co-Developers: Partners in a Study of Professional Learning Communities - Issues About Change, Volume 8, Number 2