Teaching, Language & Reference

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

(Strategies for Building a Positive Learning Environment: Stronger Relationships for Better Leadership)

by DuFour, Richard

Description

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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Solution Tree Press

Solution Tree Press

Solution Tree Press’ growing catalog of educational titles cover a well-rounded spectrum of professional development concerns: structuring professional learning communities, building leadership, raising literacy, and more.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Solution Tree Press
  • Publication Date May 2016
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781942496632
  • FormatPrint
  • Primary Price 25.03 GBP
  • Pages192
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Edition1

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