[PDF] Strengthening And Enriching Your Professional Learning Community eBook

Author : Geoffrey Caine
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1416612718

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How can educators create a collective method of professional development that results in the genuine, sustained teacher learning essential to improving student achievement? That question is at the heart of this comprehensive and practical guide to process learning circles, a unique and powerful way to develop, strengthen, and enrich professional learning communities. Authors Geoffrey and Renate N. Caine have dedicated more than 20 years to researching how people learn naturally. From this foundation, they describe in detail how process learning circles work, and they provide readers with a clear understanding of how powerful and successful this approach to professional learning can be. Along the way, they explore * The three critical elements of great professional development * How to create a field of listening * The logistics and phases of process learning circles * Tips for success as a process leader * The effects of individual differences and group dynamics * Principles for developing a process that works Examples from schools that have implemented process learning circles provide evidence of the method's success, and the authors also include an explanation of 12 underlying brain/mind learning principles, guidelines for using online tools, and broader suggestions for how to move from teaching for memorization to teaching for understanding. Written with both teachers and administrators in mind, Strengthening and Enriching Your Professional Learning Community: The Art of Learning Together is an essential guide to professional learning and development that works.

Author : Richard DuFour
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 193400989X

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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.

Author : Shirley M. Hord
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 141297271X

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This research-based sequel to Leading Professional Learning Communities focuses on the practical process of implementing, improving, and sustaining PLCs. Appropriate for groups at all stages of PLC development, this field book helps educators improve PLC operations by facilitating individual and group development and growth. The authors provide learning opportunities that generate conversations about adult learning and contribute to supportive conditions that strengthen teacher quality and raise student outcomes.

Author : Shirley M. Hord
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452207887

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Imagine all professionals in all schools engaged in continuous professional learning! Education experts Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers explore the school-based learning opportunities offered to school professionals and the principal's critical role in the creation, development, and support of an effective professional learning community (PLC). This book provides school leaders with readily accessible information to guide them in initiating and developing a PLC that supports teachers and students. Using field-tested examples, the text illustrates how this research-based school improvement model can help educators: Increase leadership capacity Embed professional development into daily work Create a positive school culture Develop accountability Boost student achievement

Author : Richard DuFour
Publisher : Solution Tree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781879639607

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Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

Author : Susan E. Sather
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452272972

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"As a high school principal, it is crucial to have tools and models that have teeth, that will make an impact on student achievement, and also improve collegiality and collaboration among teachers. This is a wonderful faculty book study choice for any school looking to have teams of teachers focused on data and how to incorporate best practices in their classrooms." —Steve Knobl, Principal Gulf High School, New Port Richey, FL Strengthen teacher expertise and expand instructional leadership through focused professional learning teams! Although a generous amount of research describes professional learning teams (PLTs) as a positive structure for developing a vision of school change through informed, data-based decision making, little guidance exists for schools wanting to create and sustain this type of team initiative. Leading Professional Learning Teams provides a field-tested model for implementing PLTs that strengthen teacher collaboration in professional learning communities, improve instruction, and increase student achievement. Developed in partnership between educators, Education Northwest (formerly known as the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory), and six high-needs schools, this guide shows a professional learning team in action. Each chapter highlights four important elements to help ensure alignment with educators′ objectives: Action: Steps for starting up a PLT Voices From the Field: School leaders offering insights from actual PLTs Tools: Resources with information about PLTs, plus at-a-glance road maps for each step of the implementation process Leadership Team Discussion: Discussion suggestions for implementation leaders Written for school leaders who are new to PLTs and those who want to fine-tune their efforts, this resource is an invaluable tool for correlating staff development with your school′s improvement goals.

Author : Susan Sather
Publisher : Corwin Publishers
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2009-08-21
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ISBN : 9781742393063

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Developed by Education Northwest (formerly NWREL), this guide offers a data-driven model for implementing professional learning teams to strengthen teacher collaboration, improve instruction, and increase student achievement.

Author : Shirley M. Hord
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452291829

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When teachers learn from each other, students reap the benefits. The first in a series exploring each of Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, this book helps readers understand what it takes to establish and maintain professional learning communities (PLCs) so they increase educator effectiveness and provide the best outcomes for students. This definitive volume details how the Learning Forward standards for professional learning can be applied successfully in any school, and includes: An original essay designed to stretch readers’ thinking by introducing the underlying theory, research, and practice behind learning communities A guide to implementing the Learning Communities standard, with an overview of six critical attributes of PLCs and the seven-step cycle of continuous improvement A case study of the district-wide implementation of PLCs, containing detailed analysis of what worked.

Author : Richard DuFour
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1935249894

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Like the first edition, the second edition of Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work helps educators close the knowing-doing gap as they transform their schools into professional learning communities (PLCs).

Author : Daisy Arredondo Rucinski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475822820

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In a professional learning community (PLC), teachers are organized into teams, committed to meeting on a regular basis to study their teaching strategies and the effects of those strategies on the students in their classrooms. The teacher teams can be of varied form and composition. Whatever the organizational structure, the teams have one goal – that is to improve teaching so that student learning is improved. Policy developers, legislators, and educational leaders have encouraged the adoption of collaborative professional learning teams as a school reform model for improving schools. In this book we describe the results of studies of professional learning communities in real schools and the effects of the teams on student learning. Much of the time school innovations are not examined in depth. Instead authors and developers simply advocate that they be used. In this book, school principals and administrators describe how their teachers used the PLC teams to improve student learning in their schools. In other words, this book presents actual research on the effects of the use of PLCs rather than testimonials.