The Collaborative Teacher

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The COLLABORATIVE Teacher

Working Together as a Professional Learning Community “ Readers will glean new insights and gather strategies for bringing collaboration to life. . . . Readers will also reap the benefits of the authors’ personal experiences and stories that affirm collaborative teachers touch the hearts and lives of students and their families in significant and lasting ways.” —From the foreword by Rebecca DuFour

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.

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Cassandra Erkens outlines four roles

of the teacher leader: collaborator, action researcher, reflective practitioner, and learner advocate. Susan Sparks provides protocols, rationale, and “talking points” for building productive, focused collaborative teams. Thomas Many investigates what educators say and research reveals on how collaboration leads to profound changes in beliefs, language, and practice. Chris Jakicic shows how to balance a vast amount of content with limited classroom time by collaboratively identifying the essential learnings that each student must acquire. Eric Twadell explains the process of lesson study and then tells an engaging story to show what it looks like in practice.

Dennis King illustrates how teachers can

take the lead to narrow the gap between the intended and the implemented curriculum. Lillie Jessie uses humor and insight to show that using data to improve learning can move from being a dreaded task to an enthusiastic mission. Ainsley Rose spells out the critical issues and steps in creating common assessments—and their benefits for teachers and students. Sharon Kramer demonstrates how to meet the challenge of learning for all through a collaborative approach to intervention and enrichment. Mary Ann Ranells explores what lies beyond mandated standards of teaching effectiveness—spectacular, joyful teaching.

“ I highly recommend this book as required reading for all educators attempting to [become] contributing members of highperforming collaborative teams. Those who follow the wise counsel presented by these outstanding authors . . . will make their schools wonderful places for learning—for students and the adults who serve them.” —From the introduction by Richard DuFour

ISBN 978-1-934009-36-9

The COLLABORATIVE Teacher Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

Education / School Improvement

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COLLABORATIVE TEACHER

Working Together as a Professional Learning Community Cassandra Erkens Chris Jakicic Lillie G. Jessie Dennis King Sharon V. Kramer Thomas W. Many Mary Ann Ranells Ainsley B. Rose Susan K. Sparks Eric Twadell

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Introduction by Richard DuFour

Foreword by Rebecca DuFour


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