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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.

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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

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.

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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

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:

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

How do educators build High Reliability Schools (HRS) and boost academic achievement? By implementing interdependent systems of operation and performance assessment for student-centered learning. A critical commitment to becoming an HRS is the PLC at Work™ process of collaborative learning and teaching. This user-friendly teaching resource focuses on: (1) a safe and collaborative culture, (2) effective teaching in every classroom, (3) a guaranteed and viable curriculum, (4) standards-referenced reporting of student progress (standards-based grading), and (5) a competency-based system.

Marzano, Warrick, Rains, and DuFour will help you:

Contents:ForewordIntroductionChapter 1: High Reliability Organizations and School LeadershipChapter 2: Safe and Collaborative CultureChapter 3: Effective Teaching in Every ClassroomChapter 4: Guaranteed and Viable CurriculumChapter 5: Standards-Referenced ReportingChapter 6: Competency-Based EducationChapter 7: District Leadership in High Reliability SchoolsAppendixReferences and ResourcesIndex

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.

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