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With foreword by Mike Mattos
Build a strong, highly impactful team committed to learning for all. Written by eight professional learning community (PLC) experts, this practical guide addresses the most common challenges educators face when building collaborative teams and working collaboratively. Each chapter offers a variety of templates, processes, and strategies to help your team resolve conflict, focus on the right work, and take collective responsibility for student learning.
Rely on this book to troubleshoot collaborative learning and team development in your PLC:
Gain an understanding of the PLC framework and the unique qualities of effective collaborative work.Learn about collaborative teams, what goes into making them, and how to utilize them effectively to drive change and professional development for teachers and other educators.Become familiar with the ways in which interpersonal issues affect collaborative teams, and gain collaborative tools for conflict resolution and team building for teachers and staff.Learn how a toxic work culture can contribute to the failure of collaborative learning and how to combat this toxic school culture.Explore how educators in nontraditional schools or singletons can use the collaborative process to their advantage.Contents:About the AuthorsForeword by Mike MattosIntroductionChapter 1: Organizing Schools Into Effective Collaborative TeamsChapter 2: Managing Team Members Who DisengageChapter 3: Establishing Clarity on What Students Need to Know and Be Able to DoChapter 4: Planning for Targeted and Effective Team InterventionsChapter 5: Working Together in a PLCChapter 6: Changing to a Positive School CultureChapter 7: Involving Nondepartmental Members in a PLCChapter 8: Supporting Singleton Teachers in Collaborative TeamsChapter 9: Dealing With Cautions, Conflicts, and CommitmentsReferences and ResourcesIndex
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A growing teacher attrition rate, combined with fewer teachers entering the profession, has created a teacher shortage in many schools. In Building Your Building, authors Jasmine K. Kullar and Scott A. Cunningham detail how school administrators can overcome these challenges to ensure they proactively hire (and keep) great teachers. Within this practical guide, you will find best practices for recruiting and retaining teachers, from interviewing candidates and mentoring new teachers to providing meaningful recognition and more.
This book will help you improve the teacher hiring process and beyond to increase teacher recruitment and retention:
Learn how to hire the best teachers with practical recruitment and interviewing techniques as well as included teacher-screening interview questions.Discover why recognition is important to retaining teachers and how to recognize teachers for their accomplishments.Review the most effective ways to support new teachers.Understand why and how to set up teacher mentoring programs.Recognize why adult learning and continued professional development for teachers contributes to teacher success.Contents:Introduction: Million-Dollar DecisionsChapter 1: Features of Effective TeachersChapter 2: Hiring PracticesChapter 3: Supporting New TeachersChapter 4: Mentoring New TeachersChapter 5: Recognizing TeachersChapter 6: Implementing Professional DevelopmentAfterwordReferences and Resources