Resource List: What is a PLC and how do we get started

Lynn Parsons, Independent Consultant

713-816-4655 lynn@parsonsassociates.net

Sharon Delespore, Assistant Principal, Hastings HS, Alief ISD

281-498-8110 sharon.delespore@aliefisd.net

Fondren Reforming Schools Summer Institute IX

University of Houston Hilton, July 26-28, 2005

SEMINAR HANDOUTS (all available on this site)

Power Point

Protocol: Microlab

How Beliefs Impact Our Work

All Kids Can Learn

Protocol: Broken Squares

Finding Time for Faculties to Study Together

BOOKS FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

Conzemius, Anne, and Jan O’Neill. The Handbook for SMART School Teams. Bloomington, Indiana: National Education Service, 2002. (www.nesonline.com)

DuFour, Richard, and Robert Eaker. Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement. Bloomington, Indiana: National Education Service, 1998. (www.nesonline.com)

DuFour, Richard, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Gayle Karnahak Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn. Bloomington, Indiana: National Education Service, 2004. (www.nesonline.com)

DuFour, Richard, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour, Ed. On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities. Bloomington, Indiana: National Education Service, 2005. (www.nesonline.com)

Eaker, Robert, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca Burnette. Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities. Bloomington, Indiana: National Education Service, 2002. (www.nesonline.com)

Garmston, Robert, and Bruce Wellman. The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups. Norwood, Massachusetts: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, 1999.

VIDEOS

DuFour, Richard, Robert Eaker, Rebecca DuFour, and Dennis Sparks. Let’s Talk about PLC: Getting Started. National Education Service, 2004. (www.nesonline.com)

DuFour Richard, and Robert Eaker. Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement. National Education Service, 2002. (www.nesonline.com)

DuFour, Richard. Through New Eyes: Examining the Culture of Your School. National Education Service, 2004. (www.nesonline.com)

DuFour, Richard, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Gayle Karhanek. Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn. National Education Service, 2004. (www.nesonline.com)

ARTICLES AND EXCERPTS (following)

DuFour, Rick. “Community: Data Put a Face on Shared Vision.” Journal of Staff Development 21.no1 (Winter, 2000)

DuFour, Rick. “Taking on Loneliness.” Journal of Staff Development 20.no1 (Winter, 1999)

DuFour, Richard. “What Is a Professional Learning Community?” Educational Leadership (May, 2004): 6-11.

Eaker, Robert, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca Burnette. “Cultural Shifts: Transforming Schools into Professional Learning Communities.” Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities. Bloomington, Indiana: National Education Service, 2002. (www.nesonline.com)

Hord, Shirley L. “Professional Learning Communities: What Are They and Why Are They Important?” Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Issues…About Change, Volume 6, Number 1.

Phillips, Joy. “Powerful Learning: Creating Learning Communities in Urban School Reform.” Journal of Curriculum and Supervision. 18.no3 (Spring, 2003): 240-258.

Richardson, Joan. “Team Learning: Teachers Who Learn Together Improve Together.” Results (March, 2001.