Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work

Dufour, Richard/ DuFour, Rebecca/ Eaker, Robert/ Mattos, Mike/ Many, Robert

ISBN 10: 194249663X / ISBN 13: 9781942496632

Published by Solution Tree, 2016

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165 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work
• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194249663X
• ISBN 13: 9781942496632
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

About this title

Synopsis

Get all of your PLC questions answered. Designed as a companion resource to Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.), this powerful, quick-reference guidebook is a must-have for teacher teams working to build and sustain a PLC. You and your team will turn to this invaluable reference tool again and again as questions and complications arise along your PLC journey.

Benefits

• Address the four critical questions that guide teacher collaboration through the PLC process.
• Review essential PLC vocabulary.
• Understand the qualities educators need to cultivate school improvement.
• Outline what students need to learn, and ascertain how to react when students either do or do not learn it.
• Gain tips on additional PLC books to read to dig deeper into the topics covered in this book.

Contents

Introduction

1 Laying the Foundation: Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals

2 Building a Collaborative Culture

3 What Do We Want Our Students to Learn?

4 How Will We Know When Our Students Have Learned It?

5 How Will We Respond When Some Students Don't Learn and When Some Do?

6 The District's Role in the PLC Process

7 Consensus and Conflict in a PLC

Afterword: It's a Journey, Not a Destination

About the Author

Richard DuFour, en tant qu'ancien directeur et surintendant d'Adlai E. Stevenson, une ecole secondaire de banlieue comptant 4000 eleves, a su faire de cet etablissement l'une des ecoles les plus reputees et admirees des Etats-Unis.

Rebecca BuFour, anciennement directrice de Boones Mill, une ecole primaire rurale de 400 eleves, a permis a son ecole de decrocher le prix d'excellence du gouverneur de l'Etat.

Mike Mattos is an internationally recognized author, presenter, and practitioner who specializes in uniting teachers, administrators, and support staff to transform schools by implementing response to intervention and professional learning communities. Mike cocreated the RTI at Work[[ model, which builds on the foundation of the PLC at Work[[ process by using team structures and a focus on learning, collaboration, and results to drive successful outcomes. Additionally, he is an architect of the PLC at Work model. He is former principal of Marjorie Veeh Elementary School and Pioneer Middle School in California. At both schools, Mike helped create powerful PLCs, improving learning for all students. In 2004, Marjorie Veeh, an elementary school with a large population of youth at risk, won the California Distinguished School and National Title I Achieving School awards. A National Blue Ribbon School, Pioneer is among only thirteen schools in the United States that the GE Foundation selecte