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On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities
Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour
On Common Ground brings together the experience and strategies of school improvement authorities Roland Barth, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, Barbara Eason-Watkins, Michael Fullan, Lawrence Lezotte, Douglas Reeves, Jonathon Saphier, Mike Schmoker, Dennis Sparks, and Rick Stiggins. The authors explore the multi-faceted landscape of education from the perspective of decades of research and practical application, sorting out the trends and ineffectual approaches. While each of the writers has a unique perspective, the consensus of all is the importance of professional learning communities as the means to authentic, sustained school reform.
The professional learning community model articulates the strategies that are considered most effective by the authors. Substantive approaches such as: embracing learning rather than teaching as the school mission; working collaboratively toward student learning; using formative assessments and a focus on results to foster continuous improvement; and assuming individual responsibility to attain the school’s transformation. On Common Ground gives educators the tools to move beyond theory into practice. This book provides designs for learning in a climate where student achievement is not only desirable, but mandated. Professional learning communities is the model that allows educational experts to move beyond their differences, and truly be on common ground.
254 pages.
ISBN 1932127429.
6 x 9.
Hardcover.
2005
Item: P1213
Member Price: $20.00
List/Forum-Division Price: $20.00
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Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour
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About the Author(s):
Robert Eaker, Ed.D., is a nationally respected authority on instructional leadership and has written widely on the issues of effective schools and student achievement. Dr. Eaker is the former interim executive vice-president and provost at Middle Tennessee State University. As the executive vice-president and provost of Middle Tennessee State University, Robert Eaker was cited by Phi Delta Kappa as one of the nation''s leading experts in translating school research into practice.
Rebecca DuFour, M.Ed., as an elementary principal, helped her school earn state and national recognition as a model professional learning community. She has written for numerous professional journals, writes book reviews for the Journal of Staff Development, and authors a quarterly column for the NAESP''s Leadership Compass. Rebecca DuFour, as principal of a 400-student elementary school in rural Virginia, helped her school receive the Governor''s Award for High Achievement.
Richard DuFour, Ed.D., is one of the nation''s foremost authorities on applying the principles of professional learning communities in the real world of schools. During his tenure as the principal of Adlai Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, from 1983 to 1991 and as superintendent of the district from 1991 to 2002, Stevenson became "one of the most recognized and celebrated schools in America" (United States Department of Education). Dr. DuFour is the author of seven books, three video resources, and over forty professional articles. As the former principal and current superintendent of a 4,000-student suburban high school, Richard DuFour has helped the school become one of the most recognized and celebrated schools in America.
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