Learning by Doing by Richard Dufour

Learning by Doing by Richard Dufour

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Learning by Doing by Richard Dufour

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

Richard Dufour, is completing post-doctoral studies at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Lloyd P. Gerson. He is currently working on a series of french translations of several plotinian treatises to be published by Garnier Flammarion.
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ISBN 13 9781943874378
ISBN 10 1943874379
Title Learning by Doing
Author Richard Dufour
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Solution Tree Press
Year published 2016-05-06
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.