Collaborative Action Research for Professional Learning Communities

Richard Sagor

ISBN 10: 1935249614 / ISBN 13: 9781935249610

Published by Solution Tree, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collaborative Action Research for Professional Learning Communities
• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935249614
• ISBN 13: 9781935249610
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Constant, high-quality collaborative inquiry sustains PLCs. Become disciplined and deliberative with data as you design and implement program improvements to enhance student learning. This book delves into the five habits of inquiry that contribute to professional learning. Get to know them and the action research process they represent. Detailed steps show you how to accomplish collaborative action research that drives continuous improvement.

About the Author

Richard Sagor is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Inquiry in Education (ISIE), a consulting service dedicated to advancing the professional growth capacity of local school faculties. In the Spring of 2008, Dick retired from his position as director of the Educational Leadership Program at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Prior to Lewis & Clark, he served as a professor of Educational Leadership at Washington State University and directed Project LEARN (the League of Educational Action Researchers in the Northwest). Before entering higher education Dick had fourteen years of public school administrative experience, including service as an assistant superintendent, high school principal, instruction vice principal, disciplinary vice-principal, and alternative school head teacher. He has taught a range of students, from the gifted to the learning disabled, in social studies, reading, and written composition. Educated in the public schools of New York, Dick received his B.A degree from New York University before moving to the Pacific Northwest, where he earned two M.A. Degrees and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Oregon. Dick has done extensive consulting experience. He has worked as a site visitor for the United States Department of Education's Blue Ribbon School Program and has consulted with numerous state departments of education and hundreds of independent school districts across North America. He has also provided staff development workshops for international schools in Asia, South America, and Africa. His consulting is focused primarily on data and standard-based school improvement, professional learning communities, collaborative action research, teacher motivation, leadership development, and teaching at-risk youth. His articles on school reform and action research have received awards from the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the Educational Press Association of America. Dick has written nine books, including Guiding School Improvement with Action Research, The Action Research Guidebook: A 4-Stage Process for Educators and School Teams, Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards, At-Risk Students: Reaching and Teaching Them, and The TQE Principal: A Transformed Leader.