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Getting district results : a case study in implementing PLCs at work / Nicholas Jay Myers ; foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour.
Van Pelt Library LB2822.83.I3 M94 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Nicholas Jay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schaumburg Township School District 54 (Ill.).
- School improvement programs--Illinois--Schaumburg (Township)--Case studies.
- School improvement programs.
- Professional learning communities--Illinois--Schaumburg (Township)--Case studies.
- Professional learning communities.
- Schaumburg Township School District 54 (Ill.)--Case studies.
- Illinois--Schaumburg (Township).
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Nicholas Jay Myers presents a powerful case study of one school district's transformation into a professional learning community. He walks readers through Schaumburg Township School District 54's journey as leaders and staff:
- Build shared knowledge
- Define their mission, vision, collective commitments, and goals
- Form collaborative teams
- Clarify essential learning questions
- Utilize common formative assessment
- Establish systematic intervention and enrichment
- Administer systemic change
- Myers details the commitment such a process takes and acknowledges that it is not always an easy road. Readers will see, step by step, how to create a strong PLC in their own school community. It's the true story of how one district made a PLC their reality. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Building shared knowledge
- Defining mission, vision, collective commitments, and goals
- Forming collaborative teams
- Clarifying essential learning questions
- Utilizing common formative assessment
- Establishing systematic intervention and enrichment
- Sustaining the process
- Administering systemic change
- Considering effective practices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1936764326
- 9781936764327
- 9781936764334
- 1936764334
- OCLC:
- 781831268
- Publisher Number:
- 99949948653
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