Richard Dufour: 14 books
Responding to the Every Student Succeeds Act With the PLC at Work ™ Process
(Integrating ESSA and Professional Learning Communities)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents US educators and local and state legislators with a rare opportunity: to reconceive schooling and education funding to better address students’ needs. Richard DuFour, Douglas Reeves, and Rebecca DuFour showcase how to make the most of this opportunity...
by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more.
Learning by Doing
A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work, Third Edition (A Practical Guide to Action for PLC Teams and Leadership)
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
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...
Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work TM
New Insights for Improving Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This 10th-anniversary sequel to the authors’ best-selling book Professional Learning Communities at Work™: 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...
Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap
Whatever It Takes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy. The authors examine case studies of schools and districts across North America to illustrate how PLC at Work™ is a sustainable and transferable process that ensures struggling students get the support...
Leading a High Reliability School
(Use Data-Driven Instruction and Collaborative Teaching Strategies to Boost Academic Achievement)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
How do educators build High Reliability Schools (HRS) and boost academic achievement? By implementing interdependent systems of operation and performance assessment for student-centered learning. A critical commitment to becoming an HRS is the PLC at Work™ process of collaborative learning and teaching....
Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work TM
(Strategies for Building a Positive Learning Environment: Stronger Relationships for Better Leadership)
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Get all of your PLC questions answered. Designed as a companion resource to Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.), this powerful, quick-reference guidebook is a must-have for teacher teams working to build and sustain a PLC. You and your team will turn...
Cultures Built to Last
Systemic PLCs at Work™
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers...
Professional Learning Communities at Work TM and Virtual Collaboration
On the Tipping Point of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Now is the time to transform education! By combining the capacities of the PLC at Work™ process and powerful technology tools, teams of educators can meaningfully modify teaching and learning. Realize the potential of virtual collaboration to support the PLC process, and discover research-based...
Professional Learning Communities at Work TM
Best Practices for Enhancing Students Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The book that launched a school improvement movement offers research-based recommendations drawn from the best practices found in schools nationwide for continuously improving school performance. Coming from the perspectives of both a distinguished dean of education and one of America’s most widely...
Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement
How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership, and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students—by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms.
Getting Started
Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools operate when they are functioning as PLCs. Two case studies examine schools that have made the transformation, showcasing district- and curriculum-level efforts to focus on student learning.
by Richard Dufour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic...
In Praise of American Educators
And How They Can Become Even Better
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Explore the state of education today. In this thought-provoking book, the author presents a compelling case for why contemporary American educators are the greatest generation in history. He carefully explains why current national reform policies have failed and presents specific steps policymakers,...