Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Communities at Work - a practical guide for PLC teams and leadership Paperback – June 2, 2010

I trust at least one of the authors...he was one of my major professors for my Master's and Ed.S in my educational leadership program. I think he would only align himself with those he trusts! He was very practical and believed in "practice what you preach." We were like a "community" in all of his classes, and I learned to trust his ideas. I bought the book to gather ideas for my "coaching future administrators" role that I now participate in since I retired. I find the authors' ideas to be relevant and supportive in my coaching role. While PLC's are not easy to implement, the strategies offered in their book are logical and reasonable, and PLC's can be achieved if implemented with patience and focus on the purpose.

The book was delivered in a timely matter. I love the book. The information and the way it was presented is awesome. The author is presented the knowledge is a simple and yet a plentiful manner.

Don't get me wrong - I have read tons of DuFour's stuff over the past 15 years - but they just keep remixing his old stuff with other people's additions and something is missing with each new update. This book is bulky, oversized and could easily be made into a SMALLER and much more useful book. On the upside - if you are going blind from reading HW and student work - it's a fast read. The idea is that the book is full of reproducible pages that admins can hand out to teachers and support staff. In a way it's like reading bunch of power points that have been bound together.The info is decent. But the price if high. Unless you definitely want it to keep as a potential resource for you to use if and when you become an administrator, you might prefer to just read it online or share with a friend or borrow it from a library.

Just returned from the PLC conference in San Antonio. It was the best three days of PD I've spent at a conference. Praise for the Dufour's for spearheading this movement! Our schools and the lives they touch are blessed because of your work.

This is the hands-on book to guide principals who would create and provide leadership for real, productive PLCs in their schools. Great text, too.

Full disclosure, as one of the authors, I am biased but I do think this is a terrific book!

Staff development it was a great reading really waiting for the movie.

This book has been so widely used in education that it should be available if you need to review it or cite it. Many user-friendly definitions and tools are included.