Networks for Learning

Chris Brown is Professor of Education at the School of Education and Childhood Studies, University of Portsmouth (UK). Chris has extensive experience of leading a range of funded projects, many of which seek to help practitioners use networks to identify and scale up best practice, and was recently awarded a significant grant by the Education Endowment Foundation to work with 100+ primary schools in England to increase their use of research.Cindy L. Poortman is Assistant Professor in the professional development of teachers in teams at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is also Project Leader of the Dutch national project ‘Pilots for the development of professional learning communities’, and Founder and Co-Project Leader of the Datateam Projects, the Netherlands.

• Introduction 1. The importance of professional learning networks Cindy L. Poortman, Chris Brown 2. Balancing top-down and shared leadership: a case study of a Teacher Design Team in transition to a new approach Floor Binkhorst 3. Research Learning Networks - a case study in using networks to increase knowledge mobilization at scale Chris Brown 4. Developing Communities of Pedagogical Inquiry in British Columbia Leyton Schnellert, Paige Fisher, Kathy Sanford 5. From data to learning: a data team professional learning network Kim Schildkamp, Jaana Nehez, Ulf Blossing 6. Austria’s Lerndesigner Network: the Dynamics of Virtual Professional Learning in Interschool Networks Livia Roessler, Tanja Westfall-Greiter 7. A professional learning network for the entire local education system – educational landscapes in Germany Pierre Tulowitzki, Anika Duveneck, Michael Krüger 8. A lesson study professional learning network in secondary education Siebrich de Vries, Rilana Prenger 9. Learning networks for sustainable literacy achievement Mei Kuin Lai, Stuart McNaughton 10. Getting Beneath the Surface: Examining the Social Side of Professional Learning Networks Joelle Rodway 11. Establishing Sustainable School Improvement through Professional Learning Networks Mireille D. Hubers, Cindy L. Poortman 12. Looking Back and Moving Forward: where to Next for Networks of Learning? Alan J. Daly, Louise Stoll