Create strong and effectives PLCs plus--and that plus is YOU What makes a powerful and results-driven Professional Learning Community (PLC)? The answer is PLC
plus-- plus being the vital role teachers play in teaching and learning. Grounded in four cross-cutting themes--equity, high expectations, efficacy, and facilitation from discussion to action--the PLC+ framework supports educators in questioning practices, not just outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement PLCs that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy.
Author: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John T. Almarode
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 06/17/2019
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781544361796
About the Author
Flories, Karen T.: - Karen T. Flories has 15 years of experience in education including special education and high school English teaching, as well as serving in the role of Literacy Director and Executive Director of Educational Services. She is currently a full time Professional Learning consultant for Corwin.
Nagel, Dave: -
Dave Nagel is an international educational consultant and researcher. His educational career started as a mid-dle school science and high school biology teacher. His administrative experiences involved being a middle school assistant principal, high school associate princi-pal, and director of extended day and credit recovery programs. In his former district, Dave was instrumental in implementing power standards and performance assessments. He was honored numerous times as a "Senior Choice" winner, with graduating seniors selecting him as someone who dramatically affected their life in a positive way.His efforts in augmenting and implementing a multifaceted credit recovery model transformed Ben Davis High School (enrollment 3,400, Grades 10-12) from a middle-of-the-road high school in terms of diplo-mas awarded into a graduation factory. By focusing on differentiated goals for students based on specific proficiency measures, Ben Davis was able to improve its graduation rate 14% in just over 4 years.Dave has been a national and international presenter and consultant to schools for over 10 years. Using his experience and expertise, he has presented and helped schools, from pre-K through Grade 12, implement effective practices leading to gains in student achievement. His main focus when working with schools has revolved around assessment, instruction, leadership, and effective collaboration. He has worked specifically with schools in implementing the following topics: prioritizing standards, com-mon formative assessments, building authentic performance tasks, effec-tive use of scoring guides, data teams, rigorous curriculum design, and effective grading practices.In the past few years, Dave has done extensive work with teachers and leaders across the country assisting schools and entire districts through a proven process to identify essential Common Core State Standards and their relationship with state and local assessment results.Dave has also done extensive work around helping school teams work on critical aspects of effective collaboration. This has significantly impacted student achievement through focusing on intentional adult actions.Published multiple times in various publications such as
Principal Leadership and
Educational Leadership, Dave has also presented at various national conferences such as those hosted by the Association for Supervi-sion and Curriculum Development, National Staff Development Council, National Association of Secondary School Principals, and National School Boards Association.Dave stays very busy with his beautiful and supportive wife, Kristen, and three boys (ages 10, 5, and 3). Kristen works full time and does most of the raising of the children, and he is extremely grateful for her every day. He acknowledges every day that the Lord guides his actions and is the driving force in his life.
Fisher, Douglas: -
Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit and an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE. He has published numerous articles on teaching and learning as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook, PLC+, Visible Learning for Literacy, Comprehension: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading, How Tutoring Works, and most recently, How Learning Works. Doug loves being an educator and hopes to share that passion with others.
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