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School Change CollaborativeDevelopment AreasLearning CommunitiesResearch indicates that by becoming a professional learning community, a school staff can strengthen its reform efforts, positively impacting student performance. But what exactly is a professional learning community and how can schools take steps to get there?To answer these questions, the School Change Collaborative has generated a set of research-based materials, created by working closely with schools that have become successful learning communities. Schools can use these tools as they transition to becoming learning communities. Self-StudyUntil schools gather information about current practices, it is difficult to zero in on the most effective changes to improve student performance. This kind of analysis — reflecting on what is and what could be — is essential to becoming a learning community. But many schools don't know how to go about collecting and using data for self-study — particularly when it comes to incorporating student views and student work.To help schools engage in this kind of self-assessment, the School Change Collaborative has identified, reviewed, and created guides for using a range of innovative tools that focus schools on data from their primary customers, students. Student VoiceStudent voice is a unique feature of the self-study approaches being designed. Currently, the School Change Collaborative is piloting several approaches that will provide information from students: examining student work; interviewing students; surveying students through questionnaires; and involving students as researchers to collect, analyze, and report their findings.
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