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Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™

Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™ BESTSELLER

A Guide to the First Year

By: Parry Graham, William M. Ferriter

Foreword by: Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour

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

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Overview

Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™

Get a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts. Each chapter begins with a story focused on a particular challenge. A follow-up analysis of the story identifies the good decisions or common mistakes made in relation to that particular scenario. The authors examine the research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with recommendations and tools you can use in your school.

Learning Forward 2010 Book of the Year Foreward Magazine's Book of the Year

  • Get a compelling, accessible narrative to grasp PLC problems and solutions.
  • Read the book cover to cover or select chapters for minilessons.
  • Gain reproducible tools you can use in your own schools.

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Additional Information

Product Code: BKF273

ISBN: 9781934009598

Page Count: 240

Editorial Reviews

“Education and learning is a job all of its own. [This book] discusses how to form a professional learning community and keep it afloat through the times. Professional learning communities' success depends on implementation, and Perry Graham and William M. Ferriter explain the concept well and give great advice in understanding it and taking it to the next level. [This book] is a must for any PLC trying to become an early success.”

The Midwest Book Review, January 2011

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  • Building a PLC at work

    By Murphy on 11/16/2015

    Great book for schools headed into the priority school status. It explains the frustrations and stages that teams will go through to achieve their goals. Motivating and realistic as well as a quick read! Useful tools as well.

    Enjoy

  • Very accessible step-by-step guide

    By Larry Ferlazzo, ELL teacher and Edublogger, Sacramento, California on 5/27/2011

    Bill Ferriter and Parry Graham have put together a very accessible step-by-step guide on how to go about creating this kind of culture [professional learning communities], including ways to trouble-shoot potential challenges. The questions that it encourages readers to ask themselves and their colleagues might be the most important parts of Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™.

  • Terrific resource!

    By Anne Jolly, Educational consultant and president of PLTWorks on 5/27/2011

    What an absolutely terrific resource! You’ve done a great job of organizing the book—starting each chapter with a real-life story and ending with a set of practical tools that are well thought out and tailored for the initiative. I guess my main question would be, what don’t I like about your book? It’s well designed, well written, and packed with useful stuff. Well done! I foresee a really bright future for you as an author. Most of all, I foresee bright futures for a lot of people because of you.

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