Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Chapter stories reveal good decisions and mistakes inherent to the PLC process. The authors analyze each scenario and offer practical recommendations and tools.

This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy and presents new insights.

The authors examine how district leadership, principal leadership, team leadership, and effective teachers can improve student achievement.

With a focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership, the authors show how to grow PLCs by encouraging innovation at every level.

Focus on developing people not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities.

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum.

This short program for PLC leaders uses unscripted interviews and action footage to illustrate the role of effective leadership, particularly from the principal.

In this breakout session, Mike shows how professional learning community practices provide the foundation for a successful intervention program and offers practical, effective strategies for beginning to build that foundation.

Learn discussion strategies to address the conflicts that can result from transforming a school into a professional learning community.

Dr. DuFour explores fundamental characteristics of professional learning communities and demonstrates the link between PLCs and 21st century skills.