Professional Learning Communities at Work and Virtual Collaboration: On the Tipping Points of Transformation

by Richard DuFour, Casey Reason

Now is the time to transform school culture! By combining the capacities of the PLC at Work(TM) process and powerful technology tools, teams of educators can meaningfully modify teaching and learning. Realize the potential of virtual collaboration to support the PLC process, and discover research-based strategies that teams of educators can implement to meet contemporary challenges in collaboration. Using technology, create conditions that foster constant teacher learning. Educators will enhance their own and their virtual teams capabilities in the learner-focused culture that PLCs promote.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Examining the Past to Understand the Present
Chapter 2: Focusing on the Right Work
Chapter 3: Organizing Virtual Connections
Chapter 4: Strategizing for e-Collaboration
Chapter 5: Enhancing Learning With e-Acceleration
Chapter 6: Improving School-Based Teams With Virtual Teams
Chapter 7: Virtual A Case Scenario
Chapter 8: Leading School-Based and Virtual Teams
Chapter 9: Reaching the Tipping Point
Reproducibles
References and Resources
Index

216 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published August 15, 2015

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're involved in secondary education, and you're setting up a virtual team of any kind, then this book will help you get started, avoid the traps for the unwary, and run your team successfully. A bit full of educational jargon, but the concepts are sound.

[Jessica Tant · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had to read this book for a book study at my school and I found it very beneficial! The PLC's I attend are usually unorganized and little gets done, I started implementing some of these ideas and we are much more productive. Just making the contract gets people to do what they are suppose to do opposed to letting one person do all the work.