Designing Educational Infrastructures for Improvement: Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Communities

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Title: Designing Educational Infrastructures for Improvement: Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Communities
Abstract/Description: This chapter examines one school district’s intentional efforts to design an educational infrastructure that fostered collaboration among teachers in its lowest-performing elementary schools at a time of mathematics instructional reform. Specifically, we describe how the integration of instructional coaches and the redesign of professional learning communities worked in tandem to support the quantity and quality of teachers’ interactions around the implementation of an inquiry-oriented mathematics curriculum and to facilitate changes in their reported classroom practices.
Author/creator: Hopkins, Megan; Spillane, James P.; Shirrell, Matthew
Date: 2018
In publication: Networked By Design
Editor: Yoon, Susan A.; Baker-Doyle, Kira J.
Pages: 192-213
Publisher: Routledge
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISBN: 978-1-315-12299-1
DOI: 10.4324/9781315122991-10
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)
Citation: Hopkins, M., Spillane, J. P., & Shirrell, M. (2018). Designing Educational Infrastructures for Improvement: Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Communities. In S. A. Yoon & K. J. Baker-Doyle (Eds.), Networked By Design (pp. 192–213). Routledge.
Cited in: Critical Social Network Analysis as a Method for Examining How Power Mediates Improvement Efforts

Item sets: Handbook Chapter 17 Citations

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