Susan K. Sparks – författare

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.

Amplify Your Impact presents K-12 educators and school leadership with a framework for improving collaboration and teambuilding for teachers in their PLCs. The authors share best practices and processes teams can rely on to ensure they are doing the right work in a cycle of continuous improvement. Discover concrete action steps your school can take to adopt proven collaborative coaching methods, fortify teacher teams, and ultimately improve student learning in classrooms.

Adopt a team-teaching approach to coaching using this book:

Gain insights from teachers and empirical evidence from schools that confirm the benefits of how coaching and refining collaborative teams can strengthen PLCs.Use the Pathways Tool for Coaching Collaborative Teams to guide your team''s conversations and team-based learning.Learn how to develop and use the strategy implementation guide (SIG) to map out your collaborative team success.Analyze coaching scenarios that illustrate how to turn ineffective team meetings into positive collaborative learning experiences.Increase instructional leadership development that promotes reflective coaching and a collaborative approach.

Contents:Introduction

Part I: The Why, How, and What of Coaching Collaborative TeamsChapter 1: Combining Coaching and CollaborationChapter 2: Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC

Part II: The Framework for Coaching Collaborative TeamsChapter 3: Amplifying Your Impact With Clarity Chapter 4: Amplifying Your Impact With FeedbackChapter 5: Amplifying Your Impact With Support

Part III: Putting It All Together to Amplify Your ImpactChapter 6: Making it Real: Coaching Scenarios

AfterwordReferences and ResourcesIndex

Strengthen your professional learning community (PLC) by building a highly effective coaching culture for collaborative teams. A companion to Amplify Your Impact, this resource drills deeper into the more complex aspects of PLC at Work®. Instructional coaches and leaders will acquire new insights and strategies for improving their team’s professional practice around the essential elements of the PLC process, including continuous improvement, collective inquiry, action orientation, and a focus on results.

Gain effective coaching strategies for implementing the PLC at Work framework in your school or district:

Review essential elements of effective PLCs and how these essential elements influence the instructional coaching of collaborative teams. Study the Strategy Implementation Guide (SIG) and Pathways for Coaching Collaborative Teams tools and how to use them in the coaching of collaborative teams. Acquire new insights, confront new questions, and explore new approaches that promote higher levels of student learning and effective professional learning communities for teachers. Discover numerous strategies to use during the effective group coaching of collaborative teams at every stage of learning to meet adaptive challenges.Learn the benefits of "drilling deeper" into the PLC process, as well as viewing the teacher as a reflective practitioner.

Contents:IntroductionForeword by Robert EakerPart I: Making a Commitment to Coaching TeamsChapter 1: Creating Habits of Professional PracticeChapter 2: Identifying How the Essential Elements of a PLC Thrive in a Coaching Culture Part II: Understanding Essential Elements of Highly Effective Teams in a PLCChapter 3: Learning Together--The Power of Collective Inquiry Chapter 4: Staying Restless--The Impact of Continuous Improvement Chapter 5: Being Urgent--The Value of an Action OrientationChapter 6: Getting Better--The Significance of a Focus on ResultsPart III: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at WorkChapter 7: Coaching for Assessing a Team''s Current Reality Chapter 8: Believing in Your Team--Coaching Collective EfficacyChapter 9: Creating an Action Plan for Coaching Collaborative TeamsAppendix A: Stages of Learning and Essential Elements of a Highly Effective PLCAppendix B: Action Planning TemplateAppendix C: Communicating the Roll-Out PlanReferences and Resources