The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community seeks to change education from inside the classroom. Using insights from a variety of experts who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology offers best practices, expert insight and testimonials, and supporting research to show the benefits of collaboration in creating a school that reaches all students. The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over; only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom. The Collaborative Teacher defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership in a Professional Learning Community. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories from experienced practitioners combine to illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to reach all students.

The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

Erkens, Cassandra

Hawker Brownlow Education

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction. Benefits: 
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<li>Define and implement best practices for collaborative teacher leadership in a PLC. </li> <li>Discover how to work together for student learning and how to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum. </li> <li>Explore the many ways data can be utilized to inform instruction. </li> <li>Use common assessments to bridge the gap between teaching and learning. </li>
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Contents: Foreword by Rebecca DuFour Introduction by Richard DuFour Part One: Working Together for Student Learning Chapter 1: The New Teacher Leader: Transforming Education From Inside the Classroom Chapter 2: Creating Intentional Collaboration Chapter 3: Teacher Talk: How Collaboration Gets to the Heart of Great Schools Part Two: Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum Chapter 4: Too Much to Teach: How to Identify What Matters Most Chapter 5: Instructional Improvement From the Inside Out: Lesson Study at Work Chapter 6: Connecting Curriculum Mapping to Assessment for Learning Part Three: Using Data to Reach All Students Chapter 7: Teaching in the Dark Chapter 8: Common Assessments: Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning Chapter 9: An Integrated Response to Learning: Eight Strategies That Work Epilogue: A New Era of Spectacular Teachers

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