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Anchor Your Vision
Navigational Tools and Strategies for Every Stage in a PLC at Work®
In Anchor Your Vision: Navigational Tools and Strategies for Every Stage in a PLC at Work®, authors Creswell, McClain, and Traicoff guide educators to create, live, and achieve their mission, vision, collective commitments, and goals. With the book’s practical tools and action steps, leaders will sharpen collective focus, shift belief into action, and circumvent common roadblocks to becoming and sustaining a highly effective PLC.
Benefits
- Reflect on the why behind their work as a PLC
- Assess their current reality and determine next steps for implementing the foundational pillars of a PLC
- Engage all staff to create, implement, and monitor the foundational pillars of a PLC
- Identify opportunities and use tools for celebrating along the journey
- Create a motto that rallies staff to the foundational pillars of a PLC
- Hire and onboard new staff through the lens of the foundational pillars
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Why
Chapter 2: Mission
Chapter 3: Vision
Chapter 4: Collective Commitments
Chapter 5: Goals
Chapter 6: Motto
Chapter 7: Hiring, Connecting, and Maintaining
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 2: Mission
- Celebration Planning
- Mission Continuum (District)
- Mission Continuum (School)
- Mission in Action and Parent Celebration Certificates
Chapter 3: Vision
Chapter 4: Collective Commitments
Chapter 5: Goals
- Creating Rituals and Celebrations
- Goals Continuum (District)
- Goals Continuum (School)
- Plan to Celebrate!
Chapter 6: Motto
Chapter 7: Hiring, Connecting, and Maintaining
- Hiring and Connecting New Staff Continuum (District)
- Hiring and Connecting New Staff Continuum (School)
- Maintaining the Work Continuum (District)
- Maintaining the Work Continuum (School)
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Introduction
- Tool: Key Vocabulary Sort
Chapter 2: Mission
- What’s My Why?
- The Power of a Mission Statement (District)
- The Power of a Mission Statement (School)
- Mission Sort
- Investigate and Create the Mission Statement
- Guiding Coalition Mission Formalization
- Mission Proposal and Adoption (Step 1)
- Mission Proposal and Adoption (Step 2)
- Mission Survey (District)
- Mission Survey (School)
- Mission Survey Analysis (District)
- Mission Survey Analysis (School)
- Staff Reflections—Implementing Stage (District)
- Staff Reflections—Implementing Stage (School)
- Guiding Coalition Analysis—Implementing Stage
- School Action Plan—Implementing Stage
- Staff Reflections—Developing Stage (District)
- Staff Reflections—Developing Stage (School)
- Guiding Coalition Analysis—Developing Stage
- School Action Plan—Developing Stage
- Staff Reflections—Sustaining Stage (District)
- Staff Reflections—Sustaining Stage (School)
- Guiding Coalition Analysis—Sustaining Stage
- School Action Plan—Sustaining Stage
Chapter 3: Vision
- Vision Sort
- The Power of a Shared Vision (District)
- The Power of a Shared Vision (School)
- Trending Stories (District)
- Trending Stories (School)
- Trending Stories Analysis
- Proposal and Adoption (Step 1)
- Proposal and Adoption (Step 2)
- Vision Survey (District)
- Vision Survey (School)
- Vision Survey Analysis (District)
- Vision Survey Analysis (School)
- Evidence of Impact (District)
- Evidence of Impact (School)
Chapter 4: Collective Commitments
- The Power of Collective Commitments (District)
- The Power of Collective Commitments (School)
- My Dreams for You
- Collective Commitments Wishlist (District)
- Collective Commitments Wishlist (School)
- Beliefs and Collective Commitments Sort
- Beliefs to Commitments (District)
- Beliefs to Commitments (School)
- Example Beliefs to Commitments
- Drafting Collective Commitments
- Ratification Survey
- Collective Commitments Violations
- Recognition Nomination
- Staff Feedback (District)
- Staff Feedback (School)
- Taking Ownership
- Evidence of Action
- Fulfilling Our Collective Commitments (District)
- Fulfilling Our Collective Commitments (School)
- Status Survey (District)
- Status Survey (School)
- Acknowledgment Survey
Chapter 5: Goals
- Goals to Impact Student Learning (District)
- Goals to Impact Student Learning (School)
- A Data Picture of Our District
- A Data Picture of Our School
- Using Our Data Part 1: Studying Our Data (District)
- Using Our Data Part 1: Studying Our Data (School)
- Using Our Data Part 2: Setting Our Goals (District)
- Using Our Data Part 2: Setting Our Goals (School)
- Using Our Data Part 3: Goals Action Plan (District)
- Using Our Data Part 3: Goals Action Plan (School)
- Goals Survey (District)
- Goals Survey (School)
- Data Analysis to Identify Department Goals
- Data Analysis to Identify Team Goals
- Data Analysis to Identify Teacher Goals
- Teacher SMART Goal
- Student SMART Goal
- Team Accountability Partners
- Setting Our District Department or School Team Goals
Chapter 6: Motto
- Motto Sort
- The Power of a Motto (District)
- The Power of a Motto (School)
- Analyze the Power of a Motto (District)
- Analyze the Power of a Motto (School)
- One Word
- Synthesizing the “One Word”
- The Power of a Motto (Parent)
- Analyze the Power of a Motto (Parent)
Chapter 7: Hiring, Connecting, and Maintaining
- Hiring Committee Application
- Hiring Committee Professional Commitments and Norms
- New Hire Onboarding
- Screening Criteria for a Vacancy
- Criteria-Based Interview Questions
- Applicant Interview Rubric
- Reference Question Examples (District)
- Reference Question Examples (School)
- The Foundation of Our District or School—Example
- The Foundation of _______________ District
- The Foundation of _______________ School
- Maintaining the Work Planning Sheet (District)
- Maintaining the Work Planning Sheet (School)
- Guiding Coalition Synthesis
- Action Plan for Our Next Steps
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
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