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		<title>Building Consensus for Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George Knights, PLC at Work™ associate and principal at Newhart Middle School
Change involves managing the complex matrix of relationships and beliefs that exist in an organization and aligning them toward a mission of higher learning for all. In my career, there is no better example of this approach than when I recently implemented a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which School-Improvement Approach Works?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DuFour
It seems to me that there are three competing approaches to school improvement in the United States today that are based on very different assumptions.
1. We’re okay; they are not okay.
This approach operates from the assumption that educators are doing a superlative job and need not consider making any substantive changes either to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open House Webinar: Master&#8217;s Degree in PLCs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Open House Webinar
Hosted by Richard and Rebecca DuFour
Presented by the National Institute for Professional Practice and Wilkes University
Monday, June 28, 2010
5:00 p.m.&#8211;6:00 p.m. EDT
Register today!
You are invited to learn about the master&#8217;s degree in professional learning communities, which is based on the research of Richard and Rebecca DuFour.
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		<title>Self-Directed Teams Contribute to Sustainability</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick and Becky DuFour
We received a question from a school where teachers were upset that the administration seemed to be dictating what was to occur at their team meetings. Teachers resented being micromanaged, and administrators felt that teams needed specific directions and focus to ensure teachers used the time productively. Here is how we responded:
Assume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming RTI Webinar Hosted by Austin Buffum</title>
		<link>http://www.allthingsplc.info/wordpress/?p=863</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Webinar
Pyramid Response to Intervention Webinar
Hosted by Austin Buffum
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
5:00 p.m. &#8211; 6:00 pm EDT
Register today!
For educators working in PLCs, RTI is nothing new. Timely, targeted, and systematic interventions are built into daily practice. Austin draws from the best-selling book Pyramid Response to Intervention to explain how RTI is sustainable and highly effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join the conversation with Rick and Becky DuFour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 12:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder that this is the second day of our conversation which ends tomorrow. Click here and join in using VoiceThread. If you do not have an account, create one for FREE! Then you can comment, ask questions, or just listen in.
Read moderator Bill Ferriter&#8217;s summary of day one on his blog here.
You might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick and Becky DuFour

Isn’t the system of interventions what special education is designed to do?

Some people think the PLC concept is just another version of special education. They suggest, “If the kids can’t cut it, why not just put them in special education? That’s why we have it.”]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking Team-Based Interventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Ferriter, teacher and PLC associate
Preparing for our upcoming conversation with Rick and Becky DuFour on the steps that highly functioning professional learning communities take to provide enrichment and remediation opportunities for every child has gotten me thinking a ton about the intervention efforts of my own learning team.
You see, even though I work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration Empowers PLC Process</title>
		<link>http://www.allthingsplc.info/wordpress/?p=679</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DuFour
We received an inquiry from a teacher who was attempting to lead the implementation of the PLC process in her school. She wanted to provide each of the teams in her elementary school with possible common assessments that teams could use. Her hope was to lighten the teachers&#8217; workload and convince more reluctant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Ferriter, teacher and PLC associate
In preparation for our upcoming conversation with Rick and Becky DuFour on the steps that schools can take to develop effective systems of intervention that reach beyond the classroom, I just finished reading their newest book, Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap. Here’s my review
I’ll never forget the [...]]]></description>
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