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  Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

  by Richard DuFour, Robert E. Eaker

  Professional Learning Communities at Work presents research-based recommendations drawn from the best practices found today in schools nationwide for continuously improving school performance. Coming from the perspectives of both a distinguished dean of education and one of America s most widely acclaimed practitioners, this resource provides specific, practical, how-to information about transforming schools into... (more)
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  Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn

  by Robert E. Eaker

  Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn examines the question, What happens when, despite our best efforts in the classroom, a student does not learn? A professional learning community creates a school-wide system of interventions that provides all students with additional time and support when they experience difficulty in their learning. The authors describe the... (more)
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  On Common Ground

  by Roland Barth, Barbara Eason-Watkins, Michael Fullan, Lawrence Lezotte, Douglas Reeves, Jonathon Saphier, Mike Schmoker, Dennis Sparks, Rick Stiggins, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker

  On Common Ground provides a valuable tool for educators who are doing the hard work of improving their schools. This resource offers teachers and administrators a coherent conceptual framework and specific, practical strategies for moving forward with their improvement efforts. Any listing of North America's leading authorities on school improvement would include the authors in this book. These authors agree on... (more)
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  Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap

  Whatever It Takes

  by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Gayle Karhanek

  Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap is a sequel to Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don t Learn (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Karhanek, 2004). In Whatever It Takes, the authors addressed the question of what happens when students don t learn. In this sequel, the authors reiterate, reinforce, and expand upon the ideas in Whatever It Takes by exploring the following... (more)
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  Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Book & CD-ROM)

  by Robert E. Eaker

  Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work helps educators close the knowing-doing gap as they transform their schools into professional learning communities (PLCs). This handbook is a guide for action that will: • Help educators develop a common vocabulary and consistent understanding of key PLC concepts. • Present a compelling argument that the implementation of PLC concepts... (more)
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  Differentiated professional development in a professional learning community

  by Linda Bowgren

  Schools and districts that function as professional learning communities (PLCs) have a keen understanding of the connection between teacher learning and student learning. They know that when teachers acquire new knowledge and successfully transfer that knowledge to their classroom practice, student learning improves. They know that continuous, collaborative, job-embedded learning is the model of professional... (more)
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  Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work

  New Insights for Improving Schools

  by Richard DuFour, Robert E. Eaker, Rebecca DuFour

  This 10th anniversary sequel to the authors best-selling book Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement (DuFour & Eaker, 1998) is a merger of research and practice. It offers educators specific, practical recommendations for transforming their schools into PLCs so their students learn at higher levels and their profession becomes more rewarding, satisfying,... (more)
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  Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division

  by Anthony Muhammad

  The goal of Transforming School Culture is to provide a framework for understanding how school cultures operate and how leaders can overcome staff division to improve relationships and transform toxic cultures into healthy ones with the ultimate goal of improved learning for all students. Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must examine and understand educators motivation for... (more)
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  Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Communities at Work

  by Richard Dufour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas Many

  Since the publication of the first edition of Learning by Doing, the authors have made presentations to tens of thousands of educators, served on dozens of panels to answer their questions, worked with several districts on a long-term ongoing basis to assist with their implementation of the professional learning community (PLC) concept, and participated in ongoing dialogue with educators on the allthingsplc.info... (more)
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  Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement [PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNIT]

  by Richard Dufour

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  Leaders of Learning

  How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement

  by Richard DuFour, Robert J. Marzano

  For many years, coauthors Rick DuFour and Bob Marzano have been co-travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. As Rick has focused on bringing the professional learning community process to life in schools, he has relied heavily on Bob s vast research on effective teaching and effective leadership. Bob has come to the conclusion that the best environment for great teaching and leading is a... (more)
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  Aligning school districts as PLCs

  by Mark Van Clay

  In order for a learning community to best deliver upon its full potential, all levels and all roles districtwide need to become aligned around the three big ideas of a PLC: ensuring a focus on learning, building a collaborative culture, and establishing a results orientation. For each of these big ideas, there are certain non-negotiables things around which there must be common agreement and expectations. For the... (more)
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  Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning

  by Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, Sarah E. Fiarman, Lee Teitel

  Walk into any school in America and you will see adults who care deeply about their students and are doing the best they can every day to help students learn. But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done before educate all students to high levels yet we don t know how to... (more)
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  Implementing Response to Intervention: A Principal's Guide

  by Susan L. Hall

  Examines administrators' critical role in ensuring successful RTI implementation and shows how to motivate staff, formulate a comprehensive assessment plan, and design a yearlong staff development plan.
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  Using Curriculum Mapping and Assessment Data to Improve Learning

  by Bena Kallick

  Data experts provide detailed guidelines on analyzing information from curriculum maps and assessments, making decisions based on data, and changing school culture to enhance learning outcomes.
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  Coaching conversations : transforming your school one conversation at a time

  by Linda M. (Marie) Gross Cheliotes, Marceta A. Reilly

  Learn how coaching conversations-which are different from supervisory and mentoring conversations-shift responsibility for instructional improvement from the school leader to the entire school community!
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  Guiding professional learning communities : inspiration, challenge, surprise, and meaning

  by Shirley M. Hord

  Offers more than 30 structured “learning opportunities” to help busy educators put six components of effective PLCs into practice and facilitate individual and schoolwide development.
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  Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide to the First Year

  by Parry Graham, William M. Ferriter

  Building a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM: A Guide to the First Year addresses the real-world critical questions that arise when schools begin their work to become professional learning communities. How can administrators and teachers take the promise of a PLC and turn it into reality? How can school leaders transform theories of collaboration into highly effective nuts-and-bolts practices? This book is... (more)
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  Good to Great

  Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

  by Jim Collins

  The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years,... (more)
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  Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform

  by David B. Tyack

  For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. In this book,... (more)