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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
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Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing PLC. The powerful third edition of this comprehensive action guide updates and expands on new and significant PLC topics. Explore fresh strategies, models, and tips for hiring and retaining new staff, creating team-developed common formative assessments, implementing systematic interventions, and more.
Benefits
Build a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying key PLC terms.Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to model effective reciprocal accountability.Make honest assessments of your school by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective.Take immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap.Move beyond planning, and start doing.
Contents
Introduction to the Third Edition
1 A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities at Work™
2 A Clear and Compelling Purpose
3 Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning Community
4 Creating a Results Orientation in a Professional Learning Community
5 Creating a Focus on Learning
6 Creating Team-Developed Common Formative Assessments
7 Responding When Some Students Don’t Learn
8 Hiring, Orienting, and Retaining New Staff
9 Resolving Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning Community
10 Implementing the PLC Process Districtwide
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The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents US educators and local and state legislators with a rare opportunity: to reconceive schooling and education funding to better address students’ needs. Richard DuFour, Douglas Reeves, and Rebecca DuFour showcase how to make the most of this opportunity by fully committing to the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process, which holds the greatest potential for maximizing student achievement.
How this book will help your PLC incorporate the Every Student Succeeds Act:
Explains the roles federal and state governments play in K-12 education funding with the adoption of ESSA and how it relates to past educational reforms such as ESEA and No Child Left Behind.Emphasizes the importance of using the PLC at Work™ process to respond to ESSA.Provides the strategies and mindsets teachers, district leaders, and states should implement to enhance student learning. Presents the right work PLC schools at any level should engage in to support student and adult success.Highlights indicators of school-level accountability and system accountability, as well as an accountability framework states should use to promote school improvement and success.Contents:
Foreword by Jon SaphierIntroductionChapter 1: A Brief History of Education Oversight in the United StatesChapter 2: The Passage of ESSAChapter 3: How States Can Respond to ESSAChapter 4: One School’s Response to ESSAChapter 5: A View From the DistrictChapter 6: How States Can Transform Opportunity Into ActionChapter 7: The Path Ahead for ESSAEpilogueAppendix A: Sample School-Level Accountability IndicatorsAppendix B: Sample System-Level Accountability Indicators
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This new edition of a classic work is written for educators invested in the moral imperative to do what''s right for all students. The authors work from the mindset that PLC at Work® is a continuous process of school improvement. The result is a revelation of best practices affirmed by the latest research and a confirmation of the power of the three big ideas and four critical questions of this proven process.
Learn how to sustain the work of collaborative teams to ensure best practices in instruction, assessment, intervention, and more.
Discover new ideas and perspectives on school leadership and school culture.Delve into greater specificity on what issues Professional Learning Communities at Work® can positively impact.Learn how to effectively provide extra time and support for students who struggle and extensions for those who have already reached their learning goals.Understand what research shows is ineffective for student success and why such practices should be discontinued.Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: Proven Insights Into Professional Learning Communities at WorkChapter 2: The Case for Professional Learning Communities at WorkChapter 3: The Challenge of Cultural ChangeChapter 4: The Four Pillars of a Professional Learning Community--Shared Mission, Vision, Values, and GoalsChapter 5: Teaching in a Collaborative CultureChapter 6: Essential Learning and Assessment in a PLCChapter 7: Interventions and Extensions in a PLCChapter 8: The Role of the Principal in a PLCChapter 9: The Role of the Superintendent and the Central Office in a PLCChapter 10: How to Sustain the PLC ProcessAppendixReferences and Resources
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25 years on, the PLC at Work® process continues to produce results across the United States and worldwide. In this fourth edition of the bestseller Learning by Doing, the authors use updated research and time-tested knowledge to address current education challenges, from learning gaps exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic to the need to drive a highly effective multitiered system of supports.
This book will help K–12 administrators, school leaders, and teacher teams: Build shared knowledge of both critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying the key PLC termsLearn new, more in-depth strategies for coaching in a PLC at WorkMake honest assessments of student learning, examine their school culture, and implement conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspectiveTake immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap and implement PLC concepts in their school and districtRecognize that the knowledge needed to support students in achieving higher levels is readily available, and the next step is to transform this awareness into an action plan for school improvementFollow the step-by-step format outlined in each chapter to advance their school’s PLC journey and drive continuous improvementContents:IntroductionChapter 1: A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities at WorkChapter 2: Defining a Clear and Compelling PurposeChapter 3: Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 4: Coaching Collaborative Teams in a Professional Learning Community at WorkChapter 5: Creating a Results Orientation in a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 6: Establishing a Focus on LearningChapter 7: Creating Team-Developed Common Formative AssessmentsChapter 8: Responding When Some Students Don’t LearnChapter 9: Hiring, Orienting, and Retaining New StaffChapter 10: Addressing Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 11: Implementing the Professional Learning Community Process DistrictwideConclusion: Touching the Emotions—Creating a Culture of CaringReferencesIndex