Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom: District Leadership for Growing Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM
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Rating | : | 4.96 (872 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1936765098 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-09-25 |
Language | : | English |
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--Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, University of TorontoHow do we lead the work to create the kinds of schools we would want our own children to attend? From the boardroom to the classroom, Bob Eaker and Janel Keating have charted the course that we all must travel to achieve the goal of every child learning at high levels. --Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, University of TorontoHow do we lead the work to create the kinds of schools we would want our own children to attend? From the boardroom to the classroom, Bob Eaker and Janel Keating have charted the course that we all must travel to achieve the goal of every child learning at high levels. Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom is a significant contr
Great book! Teacher's Teacher This book is practical, real, and gets to the heart of creating great systems of education. The two authors make the process of implementing PLC vivid and powerful. Any school on the PLC journey would appreciate this book!. Great book, but No page numbers on Kindle This is a great book. I am in a presentation now with the authors. I wanted to get the kindle version for research purposes, but there are no page numbers for the kindle version. This makes things really hard when doing a book study. Come on. Five Stars Gloria J. Peppers An excellent book to improve learning environments focusing on school reform.
Dr. Janel first put PLC concepts into practice while principal of Mountain Meadow Elementary School in Buckley, Washington. He was cited by the Kappan as one of the nation s leaders in helping public school educators translate research into practice. Robert Eaker, EdD, is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Middle Tennessee State University, where he also served as dean of the College of Education and interim vice president and pr
What would a learning community look like if we really meant it when we committed to ensuring the learning of each student? What would we consider good enough for our own children? In Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom, the authors suggest that these two questions drive PLC leaders to embed PLC at Work practices in their entire district. With a focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership, youll learn how to grow PLCs with concentrated direction and encouraging innovation at every level of the district. With many examples and reproducible tools, you'll see how effective district leaders, principals, and teams can work together to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum.Benefits * Explains the real work that districts must do to ensure that every school implements PLC practices * Explores how to build excitement and commitment to the PLC mission * Shows how to build shared knowledge of PLC practices with school board members, principals, teams, individual teachers, and the broader community * Provides strategies for district leaders to support and monitor the critical work of principals in creating collaborative teams * Offers strat