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The Collaborative Team Plan Book for PLCs at Work®
Access forty weekly planning pages, succinct summaries of professional learning community (PLC) concepts, and many more tools that will help you and your team thrive throughout the year. This plan book, which contains many reproducible forms, helps teacher teams foster collaboration.
Benefits
- Review the foundational components of the professional learning communities (PLC) process, such as establishing norms, setting SMART goals, and developing common assessments.
- Improve team planning and organization.
- Utilize many reproducible forms and tools to improve collaboration and to collect and organize information.
- Recognize the positive cultural shifts that occur for teams that follow the PLC process.
- Explore additional resources to help deepen your knowledge of the work of collaborative teams.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: PLC Fundamentals and Protocols
Part 2: Weekly Planners
Part 3: Epilogue and References
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- Are We Focused on the Right Work? Graphic Organizer
- Identifying Team Norms Protocol
- SMART Goal Template
- The PDSA Cycle
- Critical Issues for Team Consideration
- Team Meeting Agenda Template
- Identifying Essential Standards Protocol
- Unwrapping Standards Protocol
- Unwrapping Standards Template
- Five-Step Unit-Planning Template
- Developing Assessments Protocol
- Analyzing Common Formative Assessment Data Protocol
- Essential Standards Student-Tracking Chart
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- Bailey, K., & Jakicic, C. (2012). Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Bailey, K., & Jakicic, C. (2017). Simplifying Common Assessment: A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Bailey, K., & Jakicic, C. (2019). Make It Happen: Coaching with the Four Critical Questions of PLCs at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Bailey, K., Jakicic, C., & Spiller, J. (2014). Collaborating For Success with the Common Core: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Buffum, A., Mattos, M., & Malone, J. (2018). Taking Action: A Handbook for at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Conzemius, A. E., & O’Neill, J. (2014). The Handbook for Smart School Teams: Revitalizing Best Practices for Collaboration (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R. (2015). In Praise of American Educators: And How They Can Become Even Better. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., & Eaker, R. (2006). Professional Learning Communities at Work Plan Book. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning By Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Eaker, R., & Marzano, R. J. (Eds.). (2020). Professional Learning Communities at Work and High Reliability Schools. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Ferriter, W. M. (2020). The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D. (2011). The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D., & Schuhl, S. (2020). Mathematics at Work Plan Book. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Mattos, M., DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. W. (2016). Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Schimmer, T. (2016). Grading From The Inside Out: Bringing Accuracy To Student Assessment Through a Standards-Based Mindset. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Townsley, M., & Wear, N. L. (2020). Making Grades Matter: Standards-Based Grading In a Secondary PLC at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Wiliam, D. (2018). Embedded Formative Assessment (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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