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Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™
A Guide to the First Year
Get a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts. Each chapter begins with a story focused on a particular challenge. A follow-up analysis of the story identifies the good decisions or common mistakes made in relation to that particular scenario. The authors examine the research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with recommendations and tools you can use in your school.
Benefits
- Get a compelling, accessible narrative to grasp PLC problems and solutions.
- Read the book cover to cover or select chapters for minilessons.
- Gain reproducible tools you can use in your own schools.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue: A New Beginning
Chapter 1: Starting With a Vision
Chapter 2: Empowering the Core Team
Chapter 3: Creating Trust
Chapter 4: Supporting Team Development
Chapter 5: Negotiating Personalities and Conflict
Chapter 6: Experiencing Frustration
Chapter 7: Connecting Data Analysis and Instructional Improvement
Chapter 8: Building a Collective Intelligence
Epilogue: Equal Parts Looking Back and Looking Forward
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- The Capacity of a Professional Learning Community: Four Interconnected Factors
- Professional Learning Community Capacity Planning Checklist
- Conversation Tracking Sheet
- Turning Principles Into Stories
- Professional Learning Teams
- Finding Your Hedgehog
- Who Are the Personalities in Your Organization?
- Balancing the Core Team
- Creating Opportunities for Dialogue
- Building Relationships With Teachers
- The Trust on Our Team Survey
- Record of School Relationships
- Professional Learning Community Administration Survey
- Professional Development for Learning Teams
- Learning Team Collaboration Survey
- Stages of Team Development
- Weathering the Storm: Storming Strategies and Suggestions for Learning Teams
- Team Agenda Template
- Team Roles to Consider
- Fist-to-Five Ratings
- Managing Team-Based Conflict
- Administrator Roles in Team Conflicts
- Tools for Twenty-First-Century Learning Teams: Planning Guide
- Tools for Twenty-First-Century Learning Teams: Matrices
- Midyear PLC Survey
- What Is Our Team Monitoring?
- Structuring Data Conversations
- Team Action Planning Template
- Evidence of Practice in Action
- Professional Learning Team Data-Literacy Survey
- Recommended Resources for More Information on Lesson Study and Action Research
- Tracking the Interventions in Your Building