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How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC
Collaborate for schoolwide success. Establishing a collaborative culture can significantly impact student achievement and professional practice. With this how-to guide, you'll gain clarity on the work of teams in a PLC and uncover the elements of effective team development. Discover skills and behaviors that individuals and teams can improve regarding communication, facilitating data conversations, and managing consensus while working together.
Benefits
- Consult case studies that illustrate the problems that teacher teams may face as they collaborate and how to address them.
- Evaluate the stages that teams will move through as they collaborate to reach agreement.
- Consider step-by-step processes for cultivating effective collaboration.
- Determine the responsibilities for each member of a collaborative school team.
- Explore the behaviors teachers should commit to in order to foster productive listening and participation among teams.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Dispositions
Chapter 2: Process
Chapter 3: Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 4: Skills and Behaviors
Chapter 5: Conclusion
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- Aligning the Curriculum and Common Assessments
- Continuous Improvement
- Critical Issues for Team Consideration
- Developing Collective Statements
- Diagnosis and Design for Facilitators
- Ending the Meeting and Evaluating Effectiveness
- Facilitative Leadership Competencies
- Interactive Tools and Strategies
- Interest-Based Strategy
- Rate Yourself as a Team Player
- Reinforcing Norms and Evaluating Team Effectiveness
- Slip Sliding Away
- Team Clarity Tool
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Chapter 1
- All Things PLC
- Emergenetics International
- National School Reform Faculty at the Harmony Education Center, "North, South, East and West: Compass Points”
- Thinking Collaborative, "Energy Sources Team Self-Assessment Survey”
Chapter 2
