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About This Book
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.
Benefits
• Determine how a systemic approach to PLCs is essential to a collaborative culture.
• Achieve the coherence and clarity necessary to maintaining a healthy PLC.
• Find a balance between maintaining focus and generating creativity.
Topics : Professional Learning Community
Table Of Content
About the Authors
Introduction: Systemic PLCs
The Challenge of Cultural Change
Why We Need Systemic PLCs
Why Systemwide Reform Is Best
A Roadmap for Going Big
One: Clarity Precedes Competence
What Is a Professional Learning Community?
What Can Go Wrong?
The Time is Now
You Are the System
Two: Creating Coherence and Clarity
Barriers to Coherence
Strategies for Coherence Making
The Payoff of Coherence Making
Three: The Loose-Tight Dilemma
The Too-Tight Problem
The Danger of Carrots and Sticks
The Too-T nose Problem
The Right Balance
Clarifying What Is Tight
Examples of Too-Loose and Too-Tight Leadership Using the Common Core State Standards
Four. The Loose-Tight System in Action
Building Shared Knowledge and Deep Understanding
Creating a Guaranteed Implemented Curriculum
Monitoring Progress at the School Site
Supporting Improvement Through Reciprocal Accountability
Building Ongoing Adult Learning Into the System
Celebrating Incremental Progress
Five: Sustaining the Improvement Process
Widespread Commitment to Both Long-Term Goals and Short-Term Action A Collaborative Culture and Collective Responsibility for Achieving Goals Lots of oft enders to Sustain Reform
A Relentless Focus on Continuous Improvement
Recognition and Celebration of Short-Term Wins
Engagement in Continuous Improvement and Focused Innovation Resolute Leadership
Fostering Systemness
Afterword: Thinking (and Doing) Bigger
References and Resources
Index
About the Authors
Michael Fullan:
Michael Fullan is professor emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Recognized as a worldwide authority on educational reform, Fullan is engaged in training, consulting, and evaluating change projects around the world, and his books have been published in many languages.
Fullan is currently Special Advisor to the Premier and Minister of Education in Ontario. His book Leading in a Culture of Change was awarded the 2002 Book of the Year Award by Learning Forward (formerly the National Staff Development Council), and Breakthrough (with Peter Hill and Carmel Crévola) won the 2006 Book of the Year Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. His latest books are The Six Secrets of Change (Jossey-Bass), What’s Worth Fighting For in the Principalship (Teachers College Press), and (with Geoff Scott) Turnaround Leadership in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass).
Among his Corwin titles are Realization: The Change Imperative for Deepening District-Wide Reform (with Lyn Sharratt), Breakthrough (with Peter Hill and Carmel Crévola), Leadership & Sustainability: System Thinkers in Action, the second edition of The Challenge of Change: Start School Improvement Now! and the new All Systems Go.
A list of his widely acclaimed books, articles, and other resources can be found at www.michaelfullan.ca.
Richard DuFour:
Richard DuFour, EdD, was a public school educator for thirty-four years, serving as a teacher, principal, and super-intendent. During his nineteen-year tenure as a leader at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, Stevenson was one of only three schools in the United States to win the U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Award on four occasions and the first comprehensive high school to be designated a New America High School as a model of successful school reform. He received his state’s highest award as both a principal and superintendent.
A prolific author and sought-after consultant, Dr. DuFour is recognized as one of the leading authorities on helping school practitioners implement the PLC at Work process in their schools and districts.
Dr. DuFour was presented the Distinguished Scholar Practitioner Award from the University of Illinois and was the 2004 recipient of the National Staff Development Council’s Distinguished Service Award.
To learn more about Dr. DuFour’s work, visit AllThingsPLC (www.allthingsPLC .info).
FormatsList PriceQtyPrinted BookSAR 50.00Add to Cart
ISBN: 9786038147030
Author: Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2014
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 120
