The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

by Cassandra Erkens

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.
Foreword by Rebecca DuFour
Introduction by Richard DuFour Part Working Together for Student Learning
Chapter 1: The New Teacher Transforming Education From Inside the Classroom
Chapter 2: Creating Intentional Collaboration
Chapter 3: Teacher How Collaboration Gets to the Heart of Great Schools Part Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
Chapter 4: Too Much to How to Identify What Matters Most
Chapter 5: Instructional Improvement From the Inside Lesson Study at Work
Chapter 6: Connecting Curriculum Mapping to Assessment for Learning Part Using Data to Reach All Students
Chapter 7: Teaching in the Dark
Chapter 8: Common Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning
Chapter 9: An Integrated Response to Eight Strategies That Work
A New Era of Spectacular Teachers

232 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2008

Reviews

[Amber]

This a great book for those getting started in a PLC its very motivating!

[Jillian]

Great book for any teacher.

[Andy Mitchell]

Spectacular teachers should have time to collaborate, during the school day, both to plan lessons and to review student work.