Congratulations to Lakeridge Junior High School, this week’s AllThingsPLC featured school! Rick and Becky DuFour have endorsed Lakeridge as a model of success with the PLC process:

"In 2002, Lakeridge Junior High in Orem, Utah, was the lowest performing junior high school in the Alpine School District. When the staff committed to full implementation of the PLC process, student achievement began to rise. Collaborative teams clarified what students were to learn for each unit and developed common assessments to monitor that learning. The school changed its schedule to provide time for systematic interventions and created a process to monitor student learning on a daily basis. By the end of the decade, Lakeridge was named the best K–12 school in Utah for two consecutive years."

For more information on Lakeridge Junior High and data exhibiting the school’s improvement, visit its Evidence of Effectiveness page.

Lakeridge is the fourth in our series of five featured Evidence of Effectiveness schools. (The first three schools were Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Stults Road Elementary School, and Robert Frost Junior High School.) We’ll be posting one school each week, leading up to the 2011 PLC Summit. Check back next week to learn about our fifth featured school in the series!