Introducing Collaborative Communities With Edge and Vitality / Carol A. Mullen * PART I: ORGANIZATION AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY * Understanding Schools as Organizations: Implications for Realizing Professional Learning Communities / Bob L. Johnson, Jr. * Forming School-University Partnerships to Create Professional Learning Communities That Improve Schools / Leonard R. Goduto, Virginia Doolittle,& Donald Leake * Developing Professional Learning Communities in a University-Public School Partnership / Robert V. Bullough, Jr.& Steven C. Baugh * Professional Development Schools: Learning Communities for Leaders and Teachers as Change Agents / Maria Sudeck, Virginia Doolittle,& Peter Rattigan * Teacher Education is Everybody's Business: Northern Guilford High School - a Professional Development Community / Carl Lashley, Jewell Cooper, Jessica McCall, Joseph Yeager,& Christine Ricci * The University Connection: Transformational Learning That Enhances Professional Learning Communities / Sandra Harris, Vicky Farrow,& Hollis Lowery-Moore * A Vision for Linking Pre-K and Higher Education Through Learning Communities / John R. Hoyle& Timothy M. Kutka * PART II: DEMOCRACY AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY * Forming Culturally Responsive Learning Communities in Demographically Changing Schools / Camille Wilson Cooper, Romy Allen,& Silvia Cristina Bettez * Transforming the Space of Schools Into Learning Communities: Teacher Leadership as Pedagogy of Democratic Place / Patrick M. Jenlink& Karen Embry Jenlink * Catalysts and Barriers: Practitioner Concepts of Professional Learning Communities as Democracies in Action / Carol A. Mullen& Sandra Harris * Faculty of Color Constructing Communities at Predominantly White Institutions / Donyell L Roseboro& C.P. Gause * Support for Women Leaders: The Visible and the Invisible / Jane H. Applegate, Penelope M. Earley,& Jill Mattuck Tarule * PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY * Professional Learning Communities and the Culture of Digital Technology: A Philosophic Inquiry / Glenn M. Hudak * Virtual Learning Communities: Encountering Digital Culture, Politics, and Capital / Roymieco A. Carter& Leila E. Villaverde * Graduate Students' and Preservice Teachers' Electronic Communications in a Community of Practice / Janet C. Richards, Susan V. Bennett,& Kim G. Thomas * PART IV: MENTORING AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY * Leadership in K-12 Learning Communities: Activism and Access Through Inter-Generational Understanding / Dannielle Joy Davis, Lisa Green-Derry, and Jovan Wells * Facilitating Professional Learning Communities Through Mentor Teacher Preparation / Susan D. Myers& Helenrose Fives * Peer Learning Communities in Action: Coaching to Improve Preservice Teaching / Caroline R. Pryor& Barbara D. O'Donnell * Conclusion: Community Change Through Activism: Insights and Lessons / Carol A. Mullen