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Designing Educational Infrastructures for Improvement: Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Communities

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Designing Educational Infrastructures for Improvement: Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Communities

Abstract/Description

This chapter examines one school district’s intentional efforts to design an educational infrastructure that fostered collaboration among teachers in its lowest-performing elementary schools at a time of mathematics instructional reform. Specifically, we describe how the integration of instructional coaches and the redesign of professional learning communities worked in tandem to support the quantity and quality of teachers’ interactions around the implementation of an inquiry-oriented mathematics curriculum and to facilitate changes in their reported classroom practices.

Date

In publication

Pages

192-213

Publisher

Routledge

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Empirical

Open access/full-text available

No

Peer reviewed

No

ISBN

978-1-315-12299-1

Citation

Hopkins, M., Spillane, J. P., & Shirrell, M. (2018). Designing Educational Infrastructures for Improvement: Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Communities. In S. A. Yoon & K. J. Baker-Doyle (Eds.), Networked By Design (pp. 192–213). Routledge.

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