Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing PLC. The powerful third edition of this comprehensive action guide updates and expands on new and significant PLC topics. Explore fresh strategies, models, and tips for hiring and retaining new staff, creating team-developed common formative assessments, implementing systematic interventions, and more.
Benefits
- Build a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying key PLC terms.
- Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to model effective reciprocal accountability.
- Make honest assessments of your school by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective.
- Take immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap.
- Move beyond planning, and start doing.
Contents
Introduction to the Third Edition
1 A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities at Work™
2 A Clear and Compelling Purpose
3 Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning Community
4 Creating a Results Orientation in a Professional Learning Community
5 Creating a Focus on Learning
6 Creating Team-Developed Common Formative Assessments
7 Responding When Some Students Don’t Learn
8 Hiring, Orienting, and Retaining New Staff
9 Resolving Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning Community
10 Implementing the PLC Process Districtwide
Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.