Cultures Built to Last

Höfundar: Richard DuFour; Michael Fullan (Útgáfa: 1)
Cultures Built to Last

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Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students—the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change.

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Útgefandi
Solution Tree Press
ISBN
9781936764754
Print ISBN
9781936764747
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Richard DuFour; Michael Fullan
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2013-05-20
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction: Systemic PLCs
  • The Challenge of Cultural Change
  • Why We Need Systemic PLCs
  • Why Systemwide Reform Is Best
  • A Roadmap for Going Big
  • One: Clarity Precedes Competence
  • What Is a Professional Learning Community?
  • What Can Go Wrong?
  • The Time Is Now
  • You Are the System
  • Two: Creating Coherence and Clarity
  • Barriers to Coherence
  • Strategies for Coherence Making
  • The Payoff of Coherence Making
  • Three: The Loose-Tight Dilemma
  • The Too-Tight Problem
  • The Danger of Carrots and Sticks
  • The Too-Loose Problem
  • The Right Balance
  • Clarifying What Is Tight
  • Examples of Too-Loose and Too-Tight Leadership Using the Common Core State Standards
  • Four: The Loose-Tight System in Action
  • Building Shared Knowledge and Deep Understanding
  • Creating a Guaranteed Implemented Curriculum
  • Monitoring Progress at the School Site
  • Supporting Improvement Through Reciprocal Accountability
  • Building Ongoing Adult Learning Into the System
  • Celebrating Incremental Progress
  • Five: Sustaining the Improvement Process
  • Widespread Commitment to Both Long-Term Goals and Short-Term Action
  • A Collaborative Culture and Collective Responsibility for Achieving Goals
  • Lots of Leaders to Sustain Reform
  • A Relentless Focus on Continuous Improvement
  • Recognition and Celebration of Short-Term Wins
  • Engagement in Continuous Improvement and Focused Innovation
  • Resolute Leadership
  • Fostering Systemness
  • Afterword: Thinking (and Doing) Bigger
  • References and Resources
  • Index