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Keys to a Professional Learning Community: My Own List
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“Alexandra Minhai says successful professional learning communities depend on four factors: being a safe space, validation by peers, crowdsourcing ideas, and accountability.” In all fairness, I should probably expand on why I think these are necessary (and possibly even sufficient) for the fostering of a professional learning community.
This could still be better. Tools provided by companies like Google and Microsoft are often very powerful, but they also introduce an unending stream of access issues because they're designed to be enterprise-first, which means locking out anyone who isn't specifically part of the tool group. How many times have I had Teams say to me "You are not authorized to access this file" when someone has explicitly intended it to be shared! “But providing discussion boards and resources everyone can access nonetheless makes these kind of all-of-enterprise communications possible, and this greatly increases the value of the professional community.” A Caveat