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The Collaborative Teacher

Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

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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: Define and implement best practices for collaborative teacher leadership in a PLC. Discover how to work together for student learning and how to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Explore the many ways data can be utilized to inform instruction. Use common assessments to bridge the gap between teaching and learning.Contents:Foreword by Rebecca DuFourIntroduction by Richard DuFourPart One: Working Together for Student LearningChapter 1: The New Teacher Leader: Transforming Education From Inside the ClassroomChapter 2: Creating Intentional CollaborationChapter 3: Teacher Talk: How Collaboration Gets to the Heart of Great SchoolsPart Two: Creating a Guaranteed and Viable CurriculumChapter 4: Too Much to Teach: How to Identify What Matters MostChapter 5: Instructional Improvement From the Inside Out: Lesson Study at WorkChapter 6: Connecting Curriculum Mapping to Assessment for LearningPart Three: Using Data to Reach All StudentsChapter 7: Teaching in the DarkChapter 8: Common Assessments: Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and LearningChapter 9: An Integrated Response to Learning: Eight Strategies That WorkEpilogue: A New Era of Spectacular Teachers