Global Perspectives: Professional Learning Communities at WorkT in International Schools (Fully Institutionalize Behaviors Consistent with PLC Expectations)

Transform your school into a high-performing, student-centered PLC. Tailored specifically to international schools, this resource will guide you through every aspect of PLC implementation. The book's contributors are all international-school educators with firsthand experience successfully reculturing their schools into PLCs. They offer real-world examples, strategies, and techniques for taking your school from good to great.

Benefits:

• Define the professional learning community process and understand its benefit to international schools.
• Shift from a teacher-focused school to a learning-focused culture.
• Understand the strengths and challenges of implementing PLCs in high-performing schools.
• Learn to work in collaborative teams across grade levels, departments, and courses.
• Create a guaranteed, viable curriculum.

Contents:
About the Editor
Foreword by Richard DuFour
Introduction: Making the Case for Professional Learning Communities in International Schools
Chapter 1: Building a PLC Culture in International Schools A Superintendent's Perspective
Chapter 2: Understanding the International School Student
Chapter 3: Understanding the International School Teacher
Chapter 4: Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum in International Schools
Chapter 5: Creating a Learning-Focused International School
Chapter 6: Creating an Inclusive International School
Chapter 7: Harnessing the Potential of Singleton Teachers in International Schools
Chapter 8: Building a Progressive International School
Chapter 9: Learning from the Jakarta Intercultural School Story
Chapter 10: Transforming Singapore American School

Timothy S. Stuart, EdD, is executive director of strategic programs at the Singapore American School. In this role, he serves as the chief architect for research and development and supports strategic school reform.

As the former high school principal of Singapore American School, he led his division through the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ implementation process, culminating in recognition as a PLC exemplar school. Dr. Stuart also served as the high school principal of Jakarta International School, where he helped introduce the PLC construct. JIS is now also recognized as a PLC exemplar school. Dr. Stuart has been an international and cross-cultural educator for 25 years, serving schools in Turkey, Switzerland, Indonesia, Singapore, and on a Navajo reservation in the United States.

An editor and a contributing author of several books, Dr. Stuart is coauthor of Children at Promise and Raising Children at Promise.

He holds an EdD from Seattle Pacific University, an MEd from The College of New Jersey, and a BA from Wheaton College.