Dr. Kelvin Adams says: "Do something brave for kids!"
The implementation of “Whole Faculty Study Groups”. This particular session focused on how a high school principal, now Superintendent of St. Louis Public Schools, Kelvin Adams, implemented Whole Faculty Study Groups for the direct benefit of the students. He gave a powerful web resource that could be of reference when implementing a professional learning community http://www.murphyswfsg.org/ . Most importantly though, he shared that there must be support from the building leadership as well as support for building capacity of teachers to provide effective teaching and learning. I found this session to be particularly engaging as I am going through doing “Critical Friends Group” in my role as a School Literacy Coach. I am thinking about how to implement this aspect of professional development as I plan for the next school year.
Additional web resources on Whole Faculty Study Groups:
http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/WFSgroups.html
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te10lk44.htm
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/wfsg/index.htm
http://www.nsrfharmony.org/faq.html
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