Louise Stoll will give a public lecture entitled ‘Developing creative and professional learning communities’ on Wednesday at 6.30 p.m. at the University Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences.

Prof. Stoll is a former president of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement, a part-time professor at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the University of London’s Institute of Education, and a freelance researcher and international consultant.

Her research and development activity focuses on how schools, districts and national systems create capacity for learning and improvement, with particular emphasis on leadership, learning communities and learning networks.

She is author and editor of various publications including Professional Learning Communities with Karen Seashore Louis; It’s About Learning (and It’s About Time) with Dean Fink and Lorna Earl; Changing Our Schools: Linking School Effectiveness and School Improvement with Dean Fink.

Prof. Stoll is visiting Malta to work with teachers, staff, parents and children at Chiswick House School and St Martin’s College, which have embarked on a four-year project entitled ‘Becoming the Best We Can Be at 110’.

The project will link the school development plan and the changes being advocated by the National Curriculum Framework to form a new vision for the school to be implemented by 2015 when Chiswick House School marks its 110th anniversary.