What are your recommendations on a text for our book study? Two that have been discussed are Schools as Professional Learning Communities by Roberts and Pruitt and Learning By Doing by Dufore, Dufore, Eakers, and Many.
How can we use a text to guide our learning of PLC's?
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Learning by Doing was the book we read this summer but I would like to see a text that has better classroom application
I would like to see us use a book that does not have administrators as its target audience.
Third Grade PLC: As a group, we feel like a text would expand our knowledge of PLCs. We would like a book that is geared toward teachers with strategies that we can apply in our classroom. If possible, we would like a book that includes a supplemental planning tool to help guide our lessons. When reading our book, we would like to discuss our readings in a Book Club format, with possible bloggings on our findings.
I am a prime example of learning by doing. I believe if the title protrays the action, the book could help me to become more efficient in the classroom! Therfore, I'd be interested in reading Learning by Doing.
I would like to see some books. PLC as a learning community has many facets. I need a book that is a handy reference.
In response to the other posts it looks like we need to pick a book that targets the classroom teacher rather than the administration and also one that includes relevant and practical applications in the classroom. Sharing our findings by posting will provide a vast network of information as well as a good support system.
Here is one I found that has examples of schools that have implemented PLC's with what worked of didn't work for them. Maybe this kind of reading would be helpful for finding our path in this adventure.
Multiple Mirrors:
Reflections on the Creation of Professional Learning Communities
Author: Shirley M. Hord
Price: Online only
• Published: 2000 • 107 pages
Available online: text, PDF
Multiple Mirrors is a collection of stories written by the co-developers who worked with SEDL in assisting schools to create professional learning communities in a sample of schools. It includes an introduction by Shirley Hord and Jody Westbrook. The stories reflect the experiences of schools trying to develop a professional learning community and make a change for the better. Although the schools changed with a varying degree of success, their stories offer many lessons in establishing trust and illustrate the role that leadership and collaboration play in the change process.
team 747 has found a book...Schools as Professional learning Communities: Collaborative Activities and Strategies for Professional Devlopement. It is written by Sylvia m. Roberts and Eunice Z. Pruitt. This book gives the basis for PLC's, talks of shared leadership, on going professional development, fostering teamwork, collaborative approaches to assessment, effective mentoring and maintaining our learning communities....
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As a group, we feel like Schools as Professional Learning Communities (SPLC) may be the more appropriate text to read for teachers. After reading the reviews (and speaking with the BMOC), the Learning by Doing book may be geared more toward BMOCs and their APs.
The seventh grade has some other suggestions: Schools as Professional Learning Communities by Roberts and Pruitt, Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement by DuFour and Eaker, Whole-Faculty Study Groups; Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning by C. Murphy and D. Lick. Does anyone have any thoughts on these? Has anyone read any of these?
2nd grade and PE would like to vote for Schools as Professional learning Communities: Collaborative Activities and Strategies for Professional Devlopement.
Our team feels that the book needs to be simple and directed toward teacher and classroom application.Thank you for flying YES Airlines. Sit back and enjoy the ride!!!
Would it be possible for different grade levels to use different texts pertaining to PLC's? (kindergarten/speech)
Preschool/speech is geared towards hands-on and creative learning. We believe it would be more benefical to have a text that is compliant with our student's learning. (Preschool/Speech PLC)
The choice of the Visionary group was to use the book Learning by Doing.
SASSI + ONE (Support All Stars & Strategic Individuals + Only Non Estrogenite) suggest a two-tiered approach to the reading selection.
First we would prefer a book as an introduction to the PLC. We could use this to build a "main cabin" for our plane as we customize our engines, flight crew, etc.
After we build the basic structure by reading an Intro text. We would suggest a second book containing reflections from peers as they implemented the same ideas from the Intro.
As for the individual books, we aren't picky. We would prefer something that is a little more intellectually stimulating vs. a text with similar effects as a night-cap. A focus on classroom implementation would be a bonus.
We need the basics. Maybe a Cliffs Note version and then a more comprehensive "how to" book
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