Colin Sloper – författare

Collaborative Teams That Work is the ultimate guide to excellent collaboration. To support your PLC's path forward, authors Colin Sloper and Gavin Grift outline 12 specific actions that lead to greater, more effective teamwork. Rely on this resource as you set up your collaborative teams, and then refer back to it before, during, and after meetings to maintain focus on the right work.Understand the positive effects of collaboration in education.Examine the cycle of learning and how it optimizes education for both students and teachers.Implement 12 actions to collaborate more effectively.Adapt the cycle of learning and collaborative techniques to other types of educational teams.See the big picture of collaboration and how the learning cycle fits into the educational system over many years.

Every school strives to better itself so that it can better its students. In Transformative Collaboration, the authors dive deep into one of the strongest strategies for school improvement--the PLC process. You will explore five collaboration-based commitments--from gaining clarity to building trust--that will ultimately help you build and sustain a PLC that provides the best possible avenues of learning to students. Commit to collaboration and use the five commitments to transform your school, understand what it means to be a PLC, find the courage to lead the process, build a climate of trust, shape school structures for success and create clarity in collaboration.