PLC Bundle

Titles in this bundle: 

Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work

Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing professional learning community (PLC). The powerful third edition of this comprehensive action guide from experts Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, and Mike Mattos 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.

Concise Answers to FAQ about PLCs at Work

Packed with strategies for building a positive learning environment, you and your team will turn to this invaluable reference tool again and again as questions and complications arise along your PLC journey.

• Outlines what students need to learn, and ascertain how to react when students either do or do not learn it.
• Addresses the four critical questions that guide teacher collaboration through the PLC process

Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools

Discover a practical, comprehensive model of effective professional learning communities. In this user-friendly guide, educators explore research-based steps and strategies designed to increase the effectiveness of collaborative teams and enhance PLCs. Examine how the PLC process can transform critical components of education-including curriculum, assessment, instruction, and teacher development-and use reproducible agendas, scales, and checklists to improve schoolwide practices.

Collaborative Teams That Work

With Collaborative teams that work, experienced teachers and educational coaches Colin Sloper and Gavin Grift take the confusion out of the collaborative process for school leaders and educators. They draw on their own experiences of working with schools, leading researchers and practitioners to delineate the right work of high-performing collaborative teams and breaking down cycles of learning into twelve clear actions. Whether your school is just starting out on its PLC journey or your team is ready to take student learning to the next level, this essential guide will bring clarity and focus to your team meetings and generate real results for he students you serve.