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e believe that professional development provides educators and schools with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to create the learning opportunities for all students to learn at high levels. With limited time and resources, informed decisions about quality professional development are critical. Building and Sustaining Learning Communities: A Professional Development Resource Guide includes vignettes, interviews, reports, articles and research to help you think about professional development as a vehicle to improve teaching and learning.

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• Cover....Table of contents....User guide (520 KB, pdf)

• Introduction....Learning Communities....Standards....Results-Driven Professional Development....Professional Development Process (2.3 MB, pdf)

• School (584 KB, pdf)

• District (867 KB, pdf)

• Policymakers (600 KB, pdf)

• Community (481 KB, pdf)

• Organizations (550 KB, pdf)

• Resources (2.6 MB, pdf)

• Appendices (726 KB, pdf)

• Feedback form (84 KB, pdf)

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