Describing schools as “communities of learning” requires that our understanding of the roles played by teachers and principals be altered. This article discusses the principal's role in a community of learning as both facilitating and modeling learning. It provides examples of both types of behavior and discusses the implications of this re-conceptualization for the pre-service training of administrators.
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