Linda Vanderford's List: PLCs

  

True professional learning community requires openness – opened classroom   doors, open lesson plan books, open conversation. Review of a teacher's behavior   by colleagues is the norm in the professional learning community (Louis &   Kruse, 1995). This practice is not evaluative but is part of the "peers   helping peers" process.

McLaughlin and Talbert (1993) confirmed Rosenholtz's findings, suggesting   that when teachers had opportunities for collaborative inquiry and the learning   related to it, they were able to develop and share a body of wisdom gleaned   from their experience