Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work®: Proven Insights for Sustained, Substantive School Improvement, Second Edition

Merging research and practice, this second edition of Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work®: Proven Insights for Sustained, Substantive School Improvement offers K-12 leaders and educators specific, practical recommendations for transforming their schools into PLCs so students learn at higher levels. The authors examine research, practices, and standards in education, as well as organizational development, change processes, leadership, and successful practices outside of education. They provide core information on the PLC process, along with proven insights gleaned from their work with leaders in education and in real schools and districts across North America and the world. This book encourages educators to undertake the challenging but rewarding process of building their collective capacity to create schools and districts that operate as high-performing PLCs. Readers will: Understand PLC concepts and practices with updates to reflect new research, the current education climate, and insights gained from Model PLC schools, Recognize why collaboration is key to improving student achievement, Know how to create essential learning goals and assessments that are right for students, Respond to students who struggle with a specific focus on response to intervention (RTI) and provide students who have mastered learning goals with extension, Learn the critical role of leadership in a PLC and how to sustain a PLC