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Building Consensus for Change
By George Knights, PLC at Work™ associate and principal at Newhart Middle …
Which School-Improvement Approach Works?
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 their professional practice or the structure and culture of their schools. The problems lie elsewhere. Society must solve the cycle of poverty. State governments need to pass more enlightened educational policies and provide more funding. Parents need to become more involved in the education of their children. Students need to become more responsible.
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Self-Directed Teams Contribute to Sustainability
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:
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Join the conversation with Rick and Becky DuFour
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Special Education
By Rick and Becky DuFour
Isn’t the system of interventions what special education …
Tracking Team-Based Interventions
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.
Collaboration Empowers PLC Process
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’ workload and convince more reluctant teachers to participate. She asked where she might go to gather common assessments. Here is my response:
Book Review: Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap
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
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