| The evaluation of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) initiative in a suburban, early childhood center, part of a nineteen school P-12 district based on the PLC continuum developed by DuFour et al. in the 2008 work, Learning by Doing, A handbook for professional learning communities at work. The purpose of the study was to answer the following questions: What is the current status of the PLC initiative? Where on the PLC continuum for each element does the center fall: pre-initiation, initiation, developing or sustaining? What changes should be made to assist the center in moving the PLC initiative forward? The study included both a survey of individual participants and focus groups with questions designed to indicate status of the PLC on the continuum. Six PLC focus group interviews were included and 22 individual participants were surveyed. |
