Professional Learning Communities at Work and Virtual Collaboration

In Professional Learning Communities at Work™ and Virtual Collaboration, authors Richard DuFour and Casey Reason emphasize that educators are on the tipping point of transforming education. This critical time is a chance to revolutionize the way we teach and learn by using the power of technology to enhance the PLC process. They outline three strategic levels for launching effective virtual teams-organizing virtual connections, strategizing for e-collaboration, and enhancing learning with e-acceleration. By focusing on the right work of PLCs, collaborative teams can meet contemporary challenges and reach sustained levels of deeper learning for both students and teachers. K-12 administrators and educators will: Discover the ten dimensions for engineering a strategic e-connection for collaborative teams, Learn how to organize and blend virtual and face-to-face teamwork, Examine a case scenario in which a high school successfully used technology to improve the PLC process, Study the principles of effective leadership in collaborative virtual teams, Explore both a glossary of PLC and virtual collaboration terms and a list of websites to help support virtual teamwork