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Whole-Faculty Study Groups (WFSGs) is a student driven approach to professional development. It is a job-embedded, professional development system designed to build a community in which professionals continuously strive to increase student learning. This is accomplished as practitioners deepen their own knowledge and understanding of what is taught, reflect on their practices, sharpen their skills, and take joint responsibility for the students they teach. 'Whole-Faculty' means that every faculty member at a school is a member of a study group focusing on data-based student instructional needs. In such a context, a study group is a small number of individuals joining together to increase their capacities to enable students to reach higher levels of performance. The collective synergy of all the study groups advance the whole school.

Carlene Murphy
Author, Whole Faculty Study Groups:
Creating Student-Based Professional Development