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Learning by Doing 3rd Edition
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, tools, and tips for hiring and retaining new staff, creating team-developed common formative assessments, implementing systematic interventions, and more.
See the companion resource, Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work™.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction to the Third Edition
Chapter 1: A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities at Work
Chapter 2: Defining a Clear and Compelling Purpose
Chapter 3: Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning Community
Chapter 4: Creating a Results Orientation in a Professional Learning Community
Chapter 5: Establishing a Focus on Learning
Chapter 6: Creating Team-Developed Common Formative Assessments
Chapter 7: Responding When Some Students Don't Learn
Chapter 8: Hiring, Orienting, and Retaining New Staff
Chapter 9: Addressing Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning Community
Chapter 9: Addressing Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning Community
Chapter 10: Implementing the Professional Learning Community Process Districtwide
Conclusion: The Fierce Urgency of Now
STUDY GUIDE
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- Boones Mill Elementary School: Hand in Hand We All Learn
- A Data Picture of Our School
- The Foundation of Anywhere High School
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Laying the Foundation
- Why Should We Articulate Collective Commitments?
- Why Should We Clarify Our Mission?
- Why Should We Describe the School or District We Are Trying to Create?
Chapter 3
- Critical Issues for Team Consideration
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Building a Collaborative Culture Through High-Performing Teams
- Why Should We Collaborate?
- Why Should We Create Norms?
- Why Should We Use Teams as Our Basic Structure?
Chapter 4
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Using School Improvement Goals to Drive Team Goals
- SMART Goal Worksheet
- SMART Goal Worksheet: American Government
- SMART Goal Worksheet: Eighth-Grade Mathematics
- SMART Goal Worksheet: Third-Grade Team
- Why Do We Need SMART Goals?
Chapter 5
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Clarifying What Students Must Learn
- Why Should We Ensure Students Have Access to a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum?
Chapter 6
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Turning Data Into Information
- Why Should We Use Common Assessments?
- Why Should We Use Formative Assessments?
Chapter 7
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Providing Students With Systematic Interventions and Extensions
- Why Should We Implement Systematic Interventions?
Chapter 8
- Is This Candidate a Good Fit for Our PLC?
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Selecting and Retaining New Instructional Staff Members
- Why Is a Focus on Hiring and Retaining Practices Important?
- Why Should We Address the Quality of Teachers?
Chapter 9
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Responding to Conflict
- Why Should Celebration Be a Part of Our Culture?
Chapter 10
- Part Six: Questions to Guide the Work of Your Professional Learning Community
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Implementing the PLC Process Districtwide
- Why Is Principal Leadership So Important?
Conclusion
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Introduction
Chapter 3
Chapter 5
- Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96, "What Students Learn in District 96”
- Marzano Research, "Proficiency Scale Bank”
Chapter 6
- National Center for Education Statistics, "National Assessment of Educational Progress”
- National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, "Assessments and Rubrics”
- OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, "Practice Tests”
- Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Chapter 7
- AllThingsPLC, "Highland Elementary School Master Schedule”
- AllThingsPLC, "Middle and High School Intervention Examples”
- AllThingsPLC, "See the Evidence” database
- Marzano Research, "Proficiency Scale Bank”
Chapter 8
