Learning by Doing

A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By: Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, Mike Mattos

The third edition of this comprehensive action guide includes new strategies, tools, and tips for transforming your school or district into a high-performing PLC.

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Publication date: May 16, 2016

Format: Paperback

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Overview

Learning by Doing

Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing PLC. The powerful third edition of this comprehensive action guide 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.

See the companion resource, Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work™.

Build a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying key PLC terms.
Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to model effective reciprocal accountability.
Make honest assessments of your school by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective.
Take immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap.
Move beyond planning, and start doing.

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Additional Information

Product Code: BKF746

ISBN: 9781943874378

Published By: Solution Tree

Page Count: 304

Editorial Reviews

“Our districtwide success in improving student academic achievement has been a remarkable journey. Learning by Doing has been our road atlas and the PLC concept our GPS as our staff members have built their collective capacity to meet the needs of all students.”

—Sandra Thorstenson, superintendent, Whittier Union High School District, Whittier, CA

“Learning by Doing is not only the title of an incredibly powerful book, it is also the description of our districts journey over the last five years. Without a doubt, the establishment of PLCs as a district and the deepening of our collaborative culture have had the single greatest impact on student achievement of any of the initiatives we have implemented. It has changed who we are, how we work and, most importantly, our outcomes. Learning by Doing has been our guidebook on the journey and helped us to understand and move from knowing to doing and finally being a professional learning community. I encourage you, read this book and answer the call to action. Once you begin the journey, you will never go back!”

—Marcus Johnson, superintendent, Sanger Unified School District, Sanger, CA