Building Professional Learning Communities (Fall 2007)

Web Exclusives

• Building a Hebrew Language Teachers’ PLC in Northern New Jersey by: Wallace Greene
• From Teacher Isolation to Professional Collaboration: An Experiment in School Change by: Peggy Kasloff
• Time Is the Essence by: Renee F. Holtz and Amy Holtzer
• Professional Learning Community PostScript by: Avi Baran Munro

From the Editor

• Letter from the Editor by: Beverly A. Buncher

Features

• Towards National Board Professional Certification for Teachers by: Pat DiPillo
• A Fellowship of Spiritual Development by: Levi Cooper
• Inhibitors and Critical Success Factors in Professional Learning Communities: Lessons from the Japanese Model by: Robert Goldberg
• Perspectives: PLCs: Starting from the Top by: Roni Raab

Research

• Building a Professional Learning Community (PLC): A Primer by: Heather Clifton and Peggy Kasloff
• Models of Professional Development by: Heather Clifton and Peggy Kasloff
• Effective Coaching in PLCs by: Heather Clifton and Peggy Kasloff
• Building Professional Learning Communities Through Beginning Teacher Induction by: Sarah Birkeland and Sharon Feiman-Nemser
• Doubling the Agenda: Improving Student and Adult Performance by: Patricia C. Ruane
• External Professional Communities for Teachers: The Community of Practice Approach by: Naava Frank, John D. Smith and Linda Cappabianca

Applications

• Linking Jewish Educators in Israel and Britain through Video-Conference Technology by: Eli Kohn
• Study Session by: Eli Kohn
• Jewish Day School Heads Work Together to Evaluate Educational Effectiveness
• Characteristics of Effective Jewish Day School Initiatives
• Building a Teacher Task Force to Change the Way Teaching is Done by: Avi Baran Munro
• How Communities of Practice (CoPS) Can Benefit Jewish Day Schools by: Judith Zorfass
• PLCs Without Borders: The Lookjed List by: Shalom Berger