Professional Learning Communities at Work®and High-Reliability Schools™: Cultures of Continuous Learning  (Ensure a viable and guaranteed curriculum) (Leading Edge Book 11)

Dramatically improve schooling by harnessing the collective power of the High Reliability Schools(tm) (HRS) model and the PLC at Work® process. Featuring some of America's best educators, this anthology includes information, insights, and practical suggestions for both PLCs and HRS. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate how these two approaches, taken together, complement each other and support educators in their efforts to create a culture of continuous improvement. Use this resource to ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum: Study the HRS and PLC practices with guidance from numerous practitioners and experts, developing good teachers into great teachers through a culture of accountability. Learn how to keep your school focused on the right work in order to achieve learning for all through a continuous improvement process. Understand how the HRS model can improve success with the PLC process and how the PLC at Work process is the cornerstone of a high reliability school. Explore the ways in which strong leaders can model and improve the why and how of PLC at Work through a collaborative culture. Explore the five levels of the HRS model, and then learn how to relate each level to PLC at Work process to improve education in your school or district. Contents: Introduction: Professional Learning Communities at Work and High Reliability Schools--Merging Best Practices for School Improvement by Robert J. Marzano and Robert Eaker Part I: The Five Levels A Safe, Supportive, and Collaborative Culture 1. Culture Building in a High Reliability School by Mario Acosta 2. Frames of Mind and Tools for Success: Organizational Culture in a PLC by Anthony Muhammad Effective Teaching in Every Classroom 3. Six Steps for Effective Teaching in Every Classroom by Toby Boss 4. Effective Teaching in a Professional Learning Community by William M. Ferriter A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum 5. Six Action Steps for a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum by Jan K. Hoegh 6. PLC, HRS, and a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum by Heather Friziellie and Julie A. Schmidt Standards-Referenced Reporting 7. A Multiyear Plan for Standards-Referenced Reporting by Tammy Heflebower 8. Grading and Reporting for Learning in a PLC by Eric Twadell Competency-Based Education 9. Personalized, Competency-Based Education by Mike Ruyle 10. Preparation for Tomorrow: A Competency-Based Focus and PLCs by Mike Mattos Part II: Professional Learning Communities, High Reliability Organizations, and School Leadership 11. High Reliability Leadership by Philip B. Warrick 12. Leadership in a PLC: Coherence and Culture by Timothy D. Kanold Part III: Professional Learning Communities, High Reliability Organizations, and District Leadership 13. Leadership in High Reliability School Districts by Cameron L. Rains 14. Leadership in a High Performing PLC by Marc Johnson

Dramatically improve schooling by harnessing the collective power of the High Reliability SchoolsTM (HRS) model and the PLC at Work® process. Featuring some of America's best educators, this anthology includes information, insights, and practical suggestions for both PLCs and HRS. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate how these two approaches, taken together, complement each other and support educators in their efforts to create a culture of continuous improvement.

Use this resource to ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum:

• Study the HRS and PLC practices with guidance from numerous practitioners and experts, developing good teachers into great teachers through a culture of accountability.
• Learn how to keep your school focused on the right work in order to achieve learning for all through a continuous improvement process.
• Understand how the HRS model can improve success with the PLC process and how the PLC at Work process is the cornerstone of a high reliability school.
• Explore the ways in which strong leaders can model and improve the why and how of PLC at Work through a collaborative culture.
• Explore the five levels of the HRS model, and then learn how to relate each level to PLC at Work process to improve education in your school or district.

Contents:
Introduction: Professional Learning Communities at Work and High Reliability Schools—Merging Best Practices for School Improvement by Robert J. Marzano and Robert Eaker
Part I: The Five Levels
A Safe, Supportive, and Collaborative Culture
1. Culture Building in a High Reliability School by Mario Acosta
2. Frames of Mind and Tools for Success: Organizational Culture in a PLC by Anthony Muhammad
Effective Teaching in Every Classroom
3. Six Steps for Effective Teaching in Every Classroom by Toby Boss
4. Effective Teaching in a Professional Learning Community by William M. Ferriter
A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
5. Six Action Steps for a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum by Jan K. Hoegh
6. PLC, HRS, and a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum by Heather Friziellie and Julie A. Schmidt
Standards-Referenced Reporting
7. A Multiyear Plan for Standards-Referenced Reporting by Tammy Heflebower
8. Grading and Reporting for Learning in a PLC by Eric Twadell
Competency-Based Education
9. Personalized, Competency-Based Education by Mike Ruyle
10. Preparation for Tomorrow: A Competency-Based Focus and PLCs by Mike Mattos
Part II: Professional Learning Communities, High Reliability Organizations, and School Leadership
11. High Reliability Leadership by Philip B. Warrick
12. Leadership in a PLC: Coherence and Culture by Timothy D. Kanold
Part III: Professional Learning Communities, High Reliability Organizations, and District Leadership
13. Leadership in High Reliability School Districts by Cameron L. Rains
14. Leadership in a High Performing PLC by Marc Johnson

Dramatically improve schooling by harnessing the collective power of the High Reliability SchoolsTM (HRS) model and the PLC at Work® process. Featuring some of America's best educators, this anthology includes information, insights, and practical suggestions for both PLCs and HRS. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate how these two approaches complement each other and support educators in their efforts to create a culture of continuous improvement. Use this resource to ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Study the HRS and PLC practices with guidance from numerous practitioners and experts, developing good teachers into great teachers through a culture of accountability. Learn how to keep your school focused on the right work in order to achieve learning for all through a continuous improvement process. Understand how the HRS model can improve success with the PLC process and how the PLC at Work process is the cornerstone of a high reliability school. Explore the ways in which strong leaders can model and improve the why and how of PLC at Work through a collaborative culture. Explore the five levels of the HRS model. And then learn how to relate each level to the PLC at Work process to improve education in your school or district. [Contributors include: Robert Eaker, William M. Ferriter, Heather Friziellie, Tammy Heflebower, Jan K. Hoegh, Marc Johnson, Timothy D. Kanold, Robert J. Marzano, Mike Mattos, Anthony Muhammad, Cameron L. Rains, Mike Ruyle, Julie A. Schmidt, Eric Twadell, and Philip B. Warrick.] "The anthology Cultures of Continuous Learning: Lessons From Professional Learning Communities at Work® and High Reliability Schools successfully proves the thesis that the PLC at Work framework and HRS model are not only interrelated, but that they support each other. With this proposition in mind, authors Robert Eaker and Robert J. Marzano work with numerous contributors to both explore the HRS model and examine its role within the PLC framework. Readers will study each level of the HRS model and the ways in which a successful implementation of the model improves education. Then, readers will be provided with a concrete example of that level of the model at work in a successfully implemented PLC at Work system. Throughout this anthology, readers will learn from the best of America's educators as each chapter is written by an educator with a deep, comprehensive understanding of either the HRS model or the PLC at Work Framework. Using this book, readers will see how the merging of the HRS model and the PLC at Work framework leads to vastly improved schooling for all students"-- Provided by publisher