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About This Book
The book that launched a school improvement movement offers research-based recommendations drawn from the best practices found 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 results-oriented PLCs.
Benefits
• Initiate, implement, and sustain a change process.
• Work collaboratively to design an effective research-based curriculum.
• Choose appropriate assessment models.
• Create meaningful partnerships with parents.
• Establish effective workplace-based professional development programs.
• Overcome the common mistakes you may face as you work toward change
Topics : Professional Learning Community
Table Of Content
About the Authors
Introduction
One: The Disappointment of School Reform
Two: A New Model: The Professional Learning Community
Three: The Complexity of the Change Process
Four: Building the Foundation of a Professional Learning Community: Mission and Vision
Five: Building the Foundation of a Professional Learning Community: Values and Goals
Six: Sustaining the School Improvement Process
Seven: Embedding Change in the Culture of School
Eight: Planning for Learning: Curricular Focus in a Learning Community
About the Authors
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).
Robert Eaker:
Robert Eaker, EdD, is professor emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University, where he also served as dean of the College of Education and interim vice president and provost. Dr. Eaker is a former fellow with the National Center for Effective Schools Research and Development. He has written widely on the issues of effective teaching, effective schools, helping teachers use research findings, and high expectations for student achievement. Dr. Eaker was instrumental in the founding of the Tennessee Teachers Hall of Fame and was a reg¬ular contributor to the Effective Schools Research Abstracts series.
To learn more about Dr. Eaker’s work, visit AllThingsPLC (www.allthingsPLC.info).
ISBN: 9960928594
Author: Richard DuFour & Robert Eaker
Publisher: Educational Book House
Size: 15.5*23cm
Pages number: 345
