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The Benefits of Professional Learning Communities
Professional Learning Communities benefit teachers, students, and administrators. [|According to this website], the collective creativity that Professional Learning Communities foster has the potential to drastically impact student learning and success. The basic premise of Professional Learning Communities is that through shared experiences and purposeful dialogue, teachers can drastically improve how they teach and ultimately how students learn. In essence, teachers are constantly learning from each other and that enables them to efficiently and effectively implement systemic change.

By encouraging school faculty members to be active participants in well designed and implemented PLCs, schools will begin to benefit in the following ways:

· Decreased teacher isolation · Increased teacher, administrator, and student collaboration · Increased staff, student, and administrator commitment to a well-defined school mission · An increased sense of shared responsibility for student success · Increased evidence of learning among students, teachers, and administrators · Powerful systemic change

[|This website]even suggests that teachers who are active participants in Professional Learning Communities even experience higher rates of job satisfaction and morale and lower rates of absenteeism. [|This website]also discusses some of the benefits of Professional Learning Communities.