This 10th-anniversary sequel to the authors’ best-selling book Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement merges research, practice, and passion. The most extensive, practical, and authoritative PLC resource to date, it goes further than ever before into best practices for deep implementation, explores the commitment/consensus issue, and celebrates successes of educators who are making the journey.
"This is the second edition of Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour's sequel to their best-selling book Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement (DuFour & Eaker, 1998).
Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: New Insights for Improving Schools
Provides recommendations on ways to improve school performance.
Organizational behavior in education: Adaptive leadership and school reform. Boston: Pearson Education. Parscale, G. (2008). Building a pyramid of interventions. In The collaborative administrator: Working together as a professional ...
Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work
Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing PLC. Written specifically for Canadian educators, this comprehensive action guide expands on new and significant PLC topics.
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.
PLC at Work, School Improvement, Leadership
Lezotte, L. (1991). Correlates of effective schools: The first and second generation. Okemos, MI: Effective Schools Products. Accessed at www.effectiveschools.com/Correlates.pdf on May 25, 2009. Lezotte, L. (2004).
Presents case studies of a high school, a middle school, and two elementary schools as examples of professional learning communities (PLCs), explaining how they came to be PLCs and showing how they systematically intervene to address ...