Aligning School Districts as PLCs

Aligning School Districts as PLCs

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  • Author: Mark Van Clay
  • Publisher: Solution Tree Press
  • ISBN: 1935543415
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

In order for a professional learning community to achieve its full potential, all levels districtwide must align with the three big ideas: ensuring a focus on learning, building a collaborative culture, and establishing a results orientation. This book breaks down the complex process of aligning the work of central office staff, building leadership, and teachers to increase student achievement.


Professional Learning Communities at Work

Professional Learning Communities at Work

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  • Author: Richard DuFour
  • Publisher: Solution Tree
  • ISBN: 9781879639607
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.


Leading Plcs at Work(r) Districtwide

Leading Plcs at Work(r) Districtwide

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  • Author: Robert Eaker
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781949539714
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Ensure your school district is doing the right work, the right way, for the right reasons. With this resource as your guide, you will learn how to align the work of every PLC team districtwide--from the boardroom to the classroom. Each chapter focuses on one of four types of teams and provides practices and tools for working together to foster a districtwide culture of continuous improvement. Use this resource to align your district's work in a top-down, bottom-up cyclical process: Learn the leadership role the district office plays in supporting successful PLC at Work implementation and school-improvement efforts. Observe how collaborative teams at every level align their work districtwide to ensure high levels of learning in professional learning communities. Study real-life examples and artifacts of best practices in action. Receive protocols and templates, such as the Team Analysis of Common Assessment (TACA) form, to move student learning forward. Review a process for establishing a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and discover strategies for analyzing student learning and making data-informed decisions. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Starting at the Top--The School Board and the Superintendent Team Chapter 2: Setting the Stage--The District-Level and Principal Teams Chapter 3: Effective Leadership Matters--The School-Level Principal and Grade-Level or Content Team Leaders Chapter 4: The Key to Improving Learning--Grade Level and Content Teams Chapter 5: Imagine This School District


Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom

Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom

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  • Author: Robert Eaker
  • Publisher: Solution Tree Press
  • ISBN: 193676511X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 544

In this sequel to Total Instructional Alignment, the author peels back complex layers of the change process to reveal the five big ideas at the core of successful schools. Focus on these foundational ideas to simplify decision making and eliminate distractions from your efforts to promote effective teaching and learning. Teachers and administrators alike will appreciate this straightforward approach to solid leadership for school improvement.


On Common Ground

On Common Ground

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  • Author: Richard DuFour
  • Publisher: Solution Tree Press
  • ISBN: 1934009865
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

This anthology presents the recommendations of education leaders, and each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and offers specific strategies for developing PLCs. These leaders have found common ground in expressing their belief in the power of PLCs although clear differences emerge regarding their perspectives on the most effective strategy for making PLCs the norm in North America.


Transforming School Culture

Transforming School Culture

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  • Author: Anthony Muhammad
  • Publisher: Solution Tree Press
  • ISBN: 1934009997
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 135

Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures.


Demystifying Professional Learning Communities

Demystifying Professional Learning Communities

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  • Author: Kristine Kiefer Hipp
  • Publisher: R&L Education
  • ISBN: 1607090511
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

The purpose of this book is to clearly define an approach to school improvement that uses professional learning community (PLC) practices to achieve school improvement and success for every student. This book offers information, examples and case studies to clarify the concept of a PLC, to respond to critical issues in schools, and to support educational leaders in addressing the important mandates of accountability and school improvement. As school leaders proactively lead efforts to create learning communities, their schools, districts, and staff will incorporate knowledge, skills, and practices that focus on teaching and learning for all. The authors' findings will assist leaders, change agents, policy makers, and university faculty in guiding schools toward creating and maintaining PLCs as they sustain school improvement for student learning.


Schools as Professional Learning Communities

Schools as Professional Learning Communities

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  • Author: Sylvia M. Roberts
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1452298599
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

Build a community in your school and improve learning outcomes with this one-stop sourcebook that features the latest educational issues, new research-based strategies and activities, and more!


PLC+

PLC+

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  • Author: Douglas Fisher
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1544385730
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 295

What makes a powerful and results-driven Professional Learning Community (PLC)? The answer is collaborative work that expands the emphasis on student learning and leverages individual teacher efficacy into collective teacher efficacy. PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design calls for strong and effective PLCs plus—and that plus is YOU. Until now, the PLC movement has been focused almost exclusively on students and what they were or were not learning. But keeping student learning at the forefront requires that we also recognize the vital role that you play in the equation of teaching and learning. This means that PLCs must take on two additional challenges: maximizing your individual expertise, while harnessing the power of the collaborative expertise you can develop with your peers. PLC+ is grounded in four cross-cutting themes—a focus on equity of access and opportunity, high expectations for all students, a commitment to building individual self-efficacy and the collective efficacy of the professional learning community and effective team activation and facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ framework supports educators in considering five essential questions as they work together to improve student learning: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit? The PLC+ framework leads educators to question practices as well as outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement learning communities that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy.


Learning by Doing

Learning by Doing

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  • Author: Richard DuFour
  • Publisher: Solution Tree
  • ISBN: 9781949539479
  • Category : Educational leadership
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 267

In the third edition of Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work®, authors Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, and Mike Mattos provide educators with a comprehensive, bestselling guide to transforming their schools into professional learning communities (PLCs). In this revised version, contributor and Canadian educator Karen Power has adapted the third edition for Canadian educators, emphasizing how Canadian educators can effectively improve learning for each student across their unique and widely diverse provinces and territories. Rewritten so that the scenarios, research, and language appropriately meet the needs of Canadian educators, this version is packed with real-world strategies and advice that will assist readers in transforming their school or district into a successful PLC.