K20 Model: Creating Networks, Professional Learning Communities, and Communities of Practice That Increase Science Learning

by: Linda Atkinson, Jean M. Cate, John O'Hair, and Janis Slater

The K20 Model develops professional learning communities (PLCs) and has been successful in district-wide and school initiatives across Oklahoma. It is based on four interrelated structures for engaging people in communities: networks, PLCS, communities of practice, and classroom communities for inquiry. Discussions of key research findings and theory from each area illustrate why and how the K20 Model uses these ideas in its design. Applications in practice related to theory are described.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/2/2009Stock # PB239X_8

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