Built to Last: Systemic Plcs at Work

Name: Built to Last: Systemic Plcs at Work
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ISBN: 9781936764747

ISBN-10: 1936764741

ISBN-13: 9781936764747

Edition: 2013

Authors: Richard Dufour, Michael Fullan

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In Cultures Built to Last, two of North America's most prominent educational thinkers team up to take PLCs to the next level. Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan recast the PLC process from just another positive innovation for individual schools to the central instrument for changing the culture of the education system: district-, state-, and nationwide. When the PLC process drives an entire system, the people within the organization develop a sense of identity that goes beyond their own classroom or office. They identify in significant ways with the larger system, which unleashes the energy of mutual allegiance and competition for the common good. It is time for PLCs to go big. DuFour and…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Triple Nickel Pr
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



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



Clarity Precedes Competence


What Is a Professional Learning Community?


What Can Go Wrong?


The Time Is Now


You Are the System



Creating Coherence and Clarity


Barriers to Coherence


Strategies for Coherence Making


The Payoff of Coherence Making



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



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



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