Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Professional Learning Communities at Work

by Mike Mattos, Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour

Get all of your PLC questions answered. Designed as a companion resource to Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.), this powerful, quick-reference guidebook is a must-have for teacher teams working to build and sustain a PLC. You and your team will turn to this invaluable reference tool again and again as questions and complications arise along your PLC journey.

Benefits


Address the four critical questions that guide teacher collaboration through the PLC process. Review essential PLC vocabulary. Understand the qualities educators need to cultivate school improvement. Outline what students need to learn, and ascertain how to react when students either do or do not learn it. Gain tips on additional PLC books to read to dig deeper into the topics covered in this book.

Contents

Introduction

1 Laying the Foundation: Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals

2 Building a Collaborative Culture

3 What Do We Want Our Students to Learn?

4 How Will We Know When Our Students Have Learned It?

5 How Will We Respond When Some Students Don t Learn and When Some Do?

6 The District s Role in the PLC Process

7 Consensus and Conflict in a PLC

Afterword: It s a Journey, Not a Destination

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Genres: Education

248 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published May 27, 2016

Reviews

[Phoebe Hayes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good, clear answers to FAQs about PLCs. I recommend it for a campus rolling out PLCs!

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could be a lot more concise imo. A plethora of information. Much of it revisited and restated due to the FAQ structure of this book. A lot of referring to other sources for more in depth information to assist in acquiring a PLC. A synopsis follows: establishing collaboration in a school community and regularly assessing the results equates to all students learning at high levels.