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Binding: Perfect PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 371.102 EAN: 9781932127287 ISBN: 1932127283 Label: Solution Tree Manufacturer: Solution Tree Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 263 Publication Date: June 01, 2004 Publisher: Solution Tree Studio: Solution Tree Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don t Learn examines the question, What happens when, despite our best efforts in the classroom, a student does not learn? . A professional learning community creates a school-wide system of interventions that provides all students with additional time and support when they experience difficulty in their learning. The authors describe the systems of interventions, including Adlai E. Stevenson High School s Pyramid of Interventions, created by a high school, a middle school, and two elementary schools. The authors also discuss the logistical barriers these schools faced and their strategies for overcoming them. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - PLCs work!Whatever it Takes is an inspirational book that leads educators through the work needed to develop a true Professional Learning Community (PLC). When you have a staff ready to do whatever it takes, you are well on your way to helping ALL students achieve academic success. Rating:  - Whatever You Can Do to Pass A StudentI find it troubling that so much of this author's claim lies at the fountainhead of what he calls learning, but where does he explain what "learning" actually is? He appears to skirt around this issue in every chapter. After reading the book, I am left with the feeling that learning, for DuFour, is something that I do as a teacher when I fill students' heads up with information. I take my pitcher of what-is-to-be-learned and carefully pour it in each student's head. According to DuFour, some heads ... Read More Rating: - "Blame the Teachers!" says this bookThe book has some good points (maybe one and a half stars), but it was difficult to read it due to my eyes rolling at every other sentence. To James O'Keefe: Right on! I totally agree 100%. You need to write a book! (It might be difficult to get it published though, considering the PLCC has probably got a stronghold on all educational publishing.) Teamwork is great and definitely has its place. But this book is talking about much more than teamwork. It's talking about placing 100% of the ... Read More Rating: - Should have been an essay.Basic ideas are sound, but I think nothing ground-breaking. I felt that each chapter could have been shortened into a paragraph or two. At most, this should have been an essay. Based on the way the book was written, I got the feeling that the authors were trying to influence the reader much the same way as a cult would try to brainwash a prospective member. While I agree that teachers should teach children to learn, I feel that the student will be in trouble upon graduation as the system of support ... Read More Rating:  - Dragged Towards the EndI haven't finished this book yet. I found the beginning useful and read it on recommendation of a former principal. There is a lot of talk about secondary schools. 
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