Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™: A Guide to the First Year (a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts)

Winner--2010 National Staff Development Council's Staff Development Book of the Year Award

Bronze Medal Award Winner--Foreword Reviews 2009 Book of the Year Award

Get a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts. Each chapter begins with a story focused on a particular challenge. A follow-up analysis of the story identifies the good decisions or common mistakes made in relation to that particular scenario. The authors examine the research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with recommendations and tools you can use in your school.

Benefits:

• Get a compelling, accessible narrative to grasp PLC problems and solutions.
• Read the book cover to cover or select chapters for mini-lessons.
• Gain reproducible tools you can use in your own schools.

Contents:
Foreword by Richard and Rebecca DuFour
Prologue: A New Beginning

Part I: Summer: Committing to a Common Purpose
Chapter 1: Starting With a Vision
Chapter 2: Empowering the Core Team

Part II: Fall: Building a Team
Chapter 3: Creating Trust
Chapter 4: Supporting Team Development

Part III: Winter: Weathering the Challenges
Chapter 5: Negotiating Personalities and Conflict
Chapter 6: Experiencing Frustration

Part IV: Spring: Looking Forward
Chapter 7: Connecting Data Analysis and Instructional Improvement
Chapter 8: Building a Collective Intelligence
Epilogue: Equal Parts Looking Back and Looking Forward