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The Futility of PLC Lite
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DuFour, Rick; Reeves, Douglas – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Although many schools around the world have claimed to embrace the Professional Learning Community process, it would be more accurate to describe the current state of affairs in many schools as PLC Lite. Educators rename their traditional faculty or department meetings as PLC meetings, engage in book studies that result in no action, or devote…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Program Development
Teen Pregnancy: It's Time for the Schools to Tackle the Problem.
Buie, James – Phi Delta Kappan, 1987
To counter the teenage pregnancy epidemic, sex education should be expanded to a twelve year learning program. Schools must develop imaginative and innovative programs geared to their individual and community needs. School-based medical clinics and special programs for pregnant and parenting teens may be necessities in some communities. (MD)
Descriptors: Contraception, Dropout Prevention, Early Parenthood, Elementary Secondary Education
Program Planning and Grant Writing in One Massachusetts School System.
Maloy, Robert W.; Seldin, Clement A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
The Greenfield Secondary Schools Project in Greenfield (Massachusetts) includes a planning and grant-writing system, a grantsperson, and a structure encouraging community involvement and interagency cooperation, and has enabled Greenfield to finance innovation in lean times. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Financial Problems, Grants, Grantsmanship
Black Moses: Jesse Jackson's PUSH for Excellence
Cole, Robert W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Discusses Jesse Jackson and his program to inspire self-help in urban education. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, National Programs