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Richard DuFour. To create a professional learning community, focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself accountable for results. The idea of improving schools by developing professional learning communities is currently in vogue.
Feb 9, 2017 · Post Updated. Richard DuFour, a renowned education consultant and author who advocated collaborative teaching environments, died Feb. 8, following a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
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Feb 11, 2007 · 2007-02-11_summary_Richard_DuFour_Whatever_It_Takes.doc printed: 9/26/2007 DuFour, Richard, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Gayle Karhanek, Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Children Don’t Learn, Solution Tree, 2004. (PLC) Summarized by: Neil Bernstein, Feb 11, 2007 Table of Contents ix About the Authors
May 1, 2004 · Richard DuFour writes that when schools shift their focus from ensuring that students are taught to ensuring that students learn, staff members begin to work collaboratively to find what practices really help students achieve at high levels. Discuss with your colleagues whether members of your school have a common understanding of what students ...
Nov 1, 2009 · Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities. Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour. Solution Tree Press, Nov 1, 2009 - Education - 80 pages. Get answers to the...
Richard DuFour, a leading advocate for creating professional learning communities in schools, shares his insights on why teaching has become an "embattled profession" and the steps teachers and school leaders can take to enhance teachers' practice and their working lives.
Richard DuFour he idea of improving schools by developing professional learning communities is currently in vogue. People use this term to describe every imaginable combination of individuals with an interest in education—a grade-level teaching team, a school committee, a high school department,
