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		<title>Q&amp;A: Rick DuFour’s Response to a Question on Formative Assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, educate4life posted the following comment on Grading Formative and Summative Assessments by Rick DuFour. I am new to this forum but stumbled upon this thread. I am a high school mathematics teacher. I have a few comments and am interested in your response. The school I am teaching at has an “open access” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operationalizing the Big Picture: The Liberal High School PLC Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Ashley Kappelmann, Instructional Coach; Ginny Duncan, Instructional Coach; Keith Adams, Principal; Eli Svaty, English Department Chair As we sat in the Cockrell Theater in San Antonio, Texas, last June at the PLC at Work Institute, our three-member-team was a little stunned as Rebecca DuFour clarified what a PLC is and what it is not. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering the Silent Stakeholders—Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Aaron Hansen, Principal of White Pine Middle School and PLC at Work™ associate Follow him on Twitter at @AaronHansen77 “To be a teacher is to be a prophet.  We are not preparing children for the world we live in but for a future we can barely imagine.”—Gordon Brown, Former Dean of MIT Engineering School. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rick DuFour’s Slides From AASA Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Rick DuFour was one of the featured presenters at the AASA&#8217;s National Conference on Education in Houston, Texas. He gave a talk on &#8220;Improving Schools Throughout a District: Lessons Learned,&#8221; and mentioned to attendees that the slides would be shared until early March here on AllThingsPLC.info. We&#8217;ve posted his slides on the tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle Over Homework</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Huff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Susan Huff, PLC at Work™ associate Last night we held parent/teacher conferences at our elementary school.  I’ve been a principal at three different elementary schools over the past 13 years, and before that I was a classroom teacher for 18 years.  Homework has always been a hot topic at parent/teacher conferences, and last night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Answers to Old Questions—Transition to Common Core</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Hendricks-Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Hendricks-Harris, PLC at Work™ associate One of the things I am most excited about is planning for the transition to common core state standards. At the same time, this shift keeps me up at night. How will we get it done? How will we fund the transition? Professional development? Bandwidth? While I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration on a broader scale, partnering with higher education to build capacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marc Johnson, PLC at Work™ associate and AASA superintendent of the year One of the three big ideas of a Professional Learning Community is building a collaborative culture.  We build collaborative teams and relationships within our organizations to increase our capacity to meet the learning needs of every student.   As we began that work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our State Adopted the Common Core Standards—Now What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Jakicic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Jakicic, PLC at Work™ author and associate Follow Chris on Twitter: @cjakicic Many schools and districts that have been implementing the PLC process are now wondering how to respond to the new Common Core Standards that their states have adopted. They’ve worked hard to respond to the four critical questions teams ask themselves: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Teachers Need, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janel Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Eaker and Janel Keating, PLC at Work™ authors and associates This post is a continuation from last week&#8217;s post, What Teachers Need, Part 1. Teachers need to work in collaborative teams with their colleagues. Yet, traditionally teachers have worked in isolation. Never before in the history of American public education have teachers been asked—in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Teachers Need, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Eaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Eaker and Janel Keating, PLC at Work™ authors and associates Increasingly, states are adopting more intensive and complex teacher evaluation systems.  While it is difficult to determine with any degree of accuracy the motivation behind these initiatives, most proponents of more stringent evaluation of teachers have proclaimed that a primary purpose is simply to [...]]]></description>
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