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Recommended Professional Learning Community Resources
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- Book & Video: Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement (DuFour & Eaker)
- Book: Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Learning Communities (Eaker, DuFour & DuFour)
- Book: Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Kahanek)
- Book: On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities (DuFour, Eaker, DuFour)
- Video: Through New Eyes: Examining the Culture of Your School (DuFour)
- Video: How to Develop a Professional Learning Community: Passion & Persistence (DuFour)
- Video: Let’s Talk About PLC: Getting Started (Rick DuFour, Bob Eaker, Becky DuFour, Dennis Sparks)
National Association of Elementary School Principals (Outside Source)
- Book & Video Series: Leading Learning Communities: What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do
National Staff Development Council (Outside Source)
- Journal of Staff Development, Tools for Schools & Results
American Association of School Administrator (Outside Source)
- The School Administrator May, 2003
Learning Communities: What do they look like and how do you get there?
Video Journal of Education (Outside Source)
- Leadership in the Age of Standards and High Stakes
- Elementary Principals as Leaders of Learning
Professional Learning Community Articles:
- “What Is a Professional Learning Community”? (Richard DuFour) Educational Leadership, May 2004 Vol. 61, No.8, pp. 6-11
- “The Learning-Centered Principal” (Richard DuFour) The Best of Educational Leadership 2001-2002
- “Leadership is an Affair of the Heart” (Rick DuFour) JSD Winter 2004
- “Building a Professional Learning Community” (Richard DuFour) &
- “Central-Office Support for Learning Communities” (Rebecca Burnette DuFour) The School Administrator, May 2003, pp 13-18
- “How We Formed our Community: Lights and Cameras are Optional, but Action is Essential” (Becky Burnette DuFour) JSD Winter 2002
- “Pull out Negativity by its Roots” (Rick DuFour & Becky Burnette DuFour) JSD Summer 2002
- “Professional Learning Communities: One School on its Way (R. John Waterhouse) The ATA Magazine Summer 2003