Introduction ; Professional learning communities: an overview / Shirley M. Hord --
Study description: investigating five PLC schools / D'Ette Cowan ... [et al.] --
Principles and teachers as continuous learners / Grace L. Fleming --
Role of trust building and its relation to collective responsibility / Grace L. Fleming, Tara Leo Thompson --
Creating and sustaining a professional learning community: actions and perceptions of principal leadership / Melanie S. Morrissey, D'Ette Cowan --
Creating co-developers: linking research and practice / D'Ette Cowan, Anita Pankake --
Two professional learning communities: tales from the field / Kristine Kiefer Hipp, Jane Bumpers Huffman --
Change diaries: parallel perspectives on school change / Richela Chapman, Dawn Watson --
One principal's story: building a community of inquiry / Brian Riedlinger --
Against all odds: reculturing a troubled school / Dianne F. Olivier --
Superintendent's influence on the creation of a professional learning community: a story of school transition / Anita Pankake --
Building teacher leadership within a traditional school structure / Gayle Moller --
Epilogue: Teaching and shared professional practice - a history of resistance; a future dependent on its embrace / Melissa Capers.