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The School Leader's Guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work™
Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more.
Benefits
- Learn specific, research-based, and actionable steps to develop and lead a PLC.
- Focus on the role of the principal in a PLC.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Creating the Structures for Collaboration
Chapter 3: Transforming Groups Into High-Performing Teams
Chapter 4: Focusing on the Right Work
Chapter 5: Demonstrating Reciprocal Accountability in a Professional Learning Community
Chapter 6: Establishing a Focus on Results
Chapter 7: Responding When Students Don't Learn
Chapter 8: Communicating Purpose and Priorities
Chapter 9: Sustaining School Improvement
Chapter 10: Fostering Collective Efficacy
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- Critical Issues for Team Consideration
- Cultural Shifts in a Professional Learning Community
- Data Analysis Protocol
- A Data Picture of Our School
- Developing Norms
- Finding Common Ground in Education Reform
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Building a Collaborative Culture Through High-Performing Teams
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Effective Communication
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Focusing on Results (Part I)
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Focusing on Results (Part II)
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Laying the Foundation
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Learning as Our Fundamental Purpose (Part I)
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Learning as Our Fundamental Purpose (Part II)
- The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Continuum: Responding to Conflict
- School District 54 Mission and Goals
- SMART Goal Worksheet
- SMART Goal Worksheet: Eighth-Grade Math
- SMART Goal Worksheet: Third-Grade Team
- Survey on Team Norms
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Clearly Defined Outcomes
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Collaborative Culture
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Effective Communication (Chapter 2)
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Effective Communication (Chapter 9)
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Laying the Foundation of a PLC
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Monitoring Each Student's Learning
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Systematic Intervention
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Turning Data Into Information
- Where Do We Go From Here? Worksheet: Using School Improvement Goals to Drive Team Goals
- Why Do We Need SMART Goals?
- Why Do We Need Widely Distributed Leadership?
- Why Is Principal Leadership So Important?
- Why Is a Results Orientation the Key to School Effectiveness?
- Why Should Celebration Be a Part of Our Culture?
- Why Should We Articulate Collective Commitments?
- Why Should We Collaborate?
- Why Should We Create Norms?
- Why Should We Describe the School or District We Are Trying to Create?
- Why Should We Ensure Students Have Access to a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum?
- Why Should We Implement Systematic Interventions?
- Why Should We Use Common Assessments?
- Why Should We Use Formative Assessments?
- Why Should We Use Teams as Our Basic Structure?
