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Article: Getting Started. (Book Reviews).(Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities)(Book Review)
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- May 1, 2003
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Rick DuFour, the former superintendent in Lincolnshire, Ill., and Robert Eaker, provost of Middle Tennessee State University, wrote a book in 1998, Professional Learning Communities at Work, that coherently addressed themes of organizational improvement. Best of all, it pointed to DuFour's school district as an example of what could be achieved by integrating core ideas on substantial educational improvement.
Now Eaker, DuFour and Rebecca Burnette DuFour, a former school principal, have written a how-to book largely devoted to building a professional learning community in a school or district. Though far more substantial than an instructional manual, the book ...