A Learning School is defined as one in which
professional learning takes place every day in order to improve the school, utilizing
the professional learning community approach.
In order to support our school’s growth in
becoming a learning school and developing a professional learning community, we should focus on professional development that is comprehensive, sustained, intensive
professional learning and continuous cycle of improvement.
These are closely aligned to our school and district goals, especially those that our administrator
mentioned when she created a strategic plan for the upcoming school year and identified school
goals that pertained to teacher quality, instruction, school climate, and
leadership.
Adaptive schools must continually ask those
focusing questions: Who are we? Why are we doing this? and Why are we doing
it this way?
Those in charge must realize, among other things that vision,
values, and goals must be clear and time, money, and human energy are valuable
resources that help to achieve school goals.
Furthermore, recognizing the importance of planning, teaching,
analyzing, and evaluating (things that make up the four phases of instructional
thinking), having a repertoire of teaching skills in which to refer, and knowing
about students and how they learn, are key elements to becoming an adaptive
learning community in which everyone learns every day.
What do you think? Share your thoughts and feedback.
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