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  August 4th, 2010

Building Consensus for Change

By George Knights, PLC at Work™ associate and principal at Newhart Middle …


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  June 23rd, 2010

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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  June 10th, 2010

Open House Webinar: Master’s Degree in PLCs

Free Open House Webinar
Hosted by Richard and Rebecca DuFour
Presented by the …


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  May 27th, 2010

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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  May 24th, 2010

Upcoming RTI Webinar Hosted by Austin Buffum

Free Webinar

Pyramid Response to Intervention Webinar
Hosted by Austin Buffum

Wednesday, June 2, 2010
5:00 …


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  May 20th, 2010

Join the conversation with Rick and Becky DuFour

Just a reminder that this is the second day of our conversation …


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  May 12th, 2010

Special Education

By Rick and Becky DuFour

Isn’t the system of interventions what special education …


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  May 4th, 2010

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.


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  April 29th, 2010

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:


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  April 27th, 2010

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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