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Rebecca B. DuFour

Rebecca B. DuFour has served as a teacher, school administrator and central office coordinator. As a former elementary school principal, she helped her school earn state and national recognition as a model professional learning community. She was the lead consultant and is the featured principal in the 2003 Video Journal of Education program "Elementary Principals as Leaders of Learning," and is one of the featured principals in the 2001 production, "Leadership in an Age of Standards and High Stakes."

Becky is the co-author of the newly released Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work, and the books Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn and Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities. She is also the co-editor of On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities, a collection of essays by leading educational authors and consultants.

Becky has written for numerous professional journals, reviewed books for the Journal of Staff Development and authored a quarterly column for Leadership Compass, published by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. Becky has worked for and consults with professional organizations, school districts, universities, and state departments of education throughout North America.

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