Demystifying Professional Learning Communities

Demystifying Professional Learning Communities
Author: Kristine Kiefer Hipp
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2010-02-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607090511

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.

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work®

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work®
Author: Richard DuFour
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 193400989X

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 We Believe

This We Believe
Author: National Middle School Association
Publisher: National Middle School Assn
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781560902324

Cultures Built to Last

Cultures Built to Last
Author: Richard DuFour
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 193676475X

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students—the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change.

The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders

The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders
Author: Timothy D. Kanold
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 193554344X

Make the transition from traditional, whole-group reading instruction to the 21st century classroom by integrating three innovations that will dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated instruction, and technology. Detailed ex

Assessing Impact

Assessing Impact
Author: Joellen Killion
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-11-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506395961

Design high-impact professional learning programs with results-based evaluations You want to make sure that the time, effort, and resources you are investing in your professional learning programs is truly making an impact on educator effectiveness and student achievement. Joellen Killion guides you step by step through the rigors of producing an effective, in-depth, results-based evaluation to measure effectiveness and retain stakeholder support. The methods outlined here: Adhere to changes in federal and state policy relating to professional learning and educator development Facilitate the use of extensive datasets crucial for measuring feasibility, equity, sustainability, and impact of professional learning Help you make data-informed decisions and increase quality and results

Evaluating Professional Development

Evaluating Professional Development
Author: Thomas R. Guskey
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761975618

Explains how to better evaluate professional development in order to ensure that it increases student learning, providing questions for accurate measurement of professional development and showing how to demonstrate results and accountability.

The Principal

The Principal
Author: Michael Fullan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1119422353

The author of Six Secrets of Change describes how and why the principal's role must change to maximize student achievement *** FREE Professional Development Guide Included *** Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what should the principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One of the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains why the answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor in autonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how the principal's role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in short order, at scale. Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play in today's schools Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of school success Filled with "action items" to help implement Fullan's program effectively Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested in schools across the United States and Canada