Cultures Built to Last

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“DuFour and Fullan lay out, in a clear and compelling way, what needs to be done to move from isolated and transient pockets of excellence to excellence at the system level— to achieve excellent outcomes not only for students, but to continue to improve to meet future challenges.” —Dylan Wiliam, Education Consultant and Author of Embedded Formative Assessment and “Inside the Black Box”

“In this deeply practical and grounded book, DuFour and Fullan make whole-system reform seem possible. They describe how to make the systemic become the local in every school so system goals become people goals. This book is a must-read.”

C U LT U R E S B U I LT T O L A S T

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—Helen Timperley, Professor of Education, The University of Auckland

“DuFour and Fullan make a bold call to every member of the school community to align his or her behavior with the business of educating children. Random acts of proficiency will not transform education. It is unacceptable to leave implementation to chance.” —Anthony Muhammad, PLC Associate and Author of Transforming School Culture and The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach

In Cultures Built to Last, two of North America’s most prominent educational thinkers team up to take PLCs to the next level. Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan recast the PLC process from just another positive innovation for individual schools to the central instrument for changing the culture of the education system: district-, state-, and nationwide. When the PLC process drives an entire system, the people within the organization develop a sense of identity that goes beyond their own classroom or office. They identify in significant ways with the larger system, which unleashes the energy of mutual allegiance and competition for the common good. It is time for PLCs to go big. DuFour and Fullan present a roadmap for this journey to systemwide implementation. They show school leaders: • How to make PLCs an ongoing endeavor rather than a program to be implemented • How PLCs function as a crucial piece within whole-system reform • How to achieve coherence and clarity systemwide • How to approach systemic PLC transformation—from the top down or the bottom up? • How to lead a PLC in a simultaneously loose and tight way • How to sustain systemic PLCs • How to recognize the warning signs when a PLC is faltering

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