Part 5 - A Genuine Way to Think About Professional Community
November 10th, 2008 by admin in Dr. Karen Seashore Louis
Karen Seashore Louis explains that one of the greatest misuses of professional community is to say that professional community is the same thing as analyzing student achievement data. Such an approach is not focused on problems of practice; instead, it’s focused on problems that are defined from outside of the teachers’ experience, and therefore is not a genuine way of thinking about community. One must keep the whole model with its three parts in mind.
Think about:
- “One of the greatest misuses of professional community is to say professional community is the same thing as analyzing student achievement data. It’s common in the United States. I don’t know whether it is in Canada.” How would you respond to Seashore Louis?
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