Professional Learning Communities by Design: Putting the Learning Back Into PLCs

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SAGE Publications, Jul 14, 2011 - Education - 279 pages
"Award-winning educator Lois Brown Easton's organic approach to PLCs includes a compelling case study, a chronological PLC planning outline, and tools on a companion CD"-- Provided by publisher.

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About the author (2011)

Lois Brown Easton works as a consultant, coach, and author. She recently retired as director of professional development at Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center, Estes Park, Colorado. A project of the American Honda Education Corporation, Eagle Rock School is a year-round, tuition-free, residential high school for students who have not experienced success in traditional academic settings. As director, Easton designed and adminsitered the professional development program for preservice and student teachers; practicing teachers and administrators; university and college students, both graduate and undergraduate; and researchers. She designed and administered an internship program for twelve young educators each year and an alternative licensure program accredited by the Colorado Deparment of Education. Easton earned her Ph.D. at the Univesity of Arizona. Her dissertation was a policy analysis of the ASAP. She has held state and national offices, particularly in language arts organizations.

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