Solution Tree: Rick DuFour on the Importance of PLCs

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Presenter and author Rick DuFour talks about the importance of professional learning communities and the biggest obstacles a school faces when transitioning to a PLC.

[@chrisilg2644]

As I see it, schools are one of the last environments that do not use collaboration. When professionals in other disciplines look from the outside in, our structure is bizarre - a bunch of professionals with the same goals and the same clients...isolating themselves in different rooms, not comparing notes, not benefiting from each others' input, not problem solving together, not brainstorming, not idea sharing. We are each other's greatest resource. PLCs finally allow us to take advantage of the resource we have in each other for the benefit of students.

[@guiyong]

@@amyhumphrey2938 obviously yes

[@jamieramage1545]

Teachers can be great alone, but are exceptional when working together. Imagine taking all of the great minds in the school together and coming up with the best resources, lessons, assessments, and ideas on how to be successful with all children - that's what PLCs are about.

[@tonya504]

EXCELLENT !!! This is my professional goal!

[@antoniowright5933]

Any positive attempt to move society forward is fine by me

[@barrymileso]

Schools have been, for a long time, collaborative and cooperative communities. The offerings from Du Four, are nothing new. Unfortunately, school boards are paying these people a ton of money to tell them them things that are hardly profound. What a waste of already limited resources.

[@brokennebula]

Yeah "paying" them, go ahead and look who is skimming off the top.

[@baritonebynight]

DuFour is now dead.

[@baritonebynight]

PLCS are a complete waste of time, but they have made Rich DuFour and the Bride of DuFour rich.

[@1michaeltodd]

True. Dufour is a distributor of false doctrine.

[@guiyong]

@@1michaeltodd Is collective learning for teachers a wrong professional strategy?