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Discover high-impact leadership strategies for a thriving learning community!

Faced with the growing demands of leadership in today’s schools, how can principals and teacher leaders ensure their actions will impact teaching and learning in positive ways? This compelling new book by Thomas Many and Susan Sparks-Many provides straightforward solutions for the complex challenges school leaders face. Discover how implementing a few specific high-leverage strategies, grounded in the core beliefs of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), can promote lasting improvement in schools. This book’s concrete examples of high-leverage, evidence-based practices help you:

You’ll find invaluable self-assessment forms, templates, case studies, planning examples, and more. Use Leverage as your essential leadership tool to transform your school into a thriving learning community!

"In Leverage, the authors craft a coherent and compelling argument for doing less but going deeper in support of school reform.  A thoughtful sense of the literature informs approaches that we all need help with—how to integrate and align our efforts in supporting student success and how to do that in sustainable ways." —Peter Dillon, Superintendent Berkshire Hills Regional School District, Stockbridge, MA

"If you are wondering which items should be at the top of your priority list, read this book, after which you will truly know what is important and how to implement sustainable change in your school that will result in better student achievement." —Jim Anderson, Principal Andersen Jr. High School, Chandler, AZ

"This book addresses PRECISELY the tension that so many of us feel. The whole concept of leverage crystallizes what we've been wrestling with in our building." —Ryan Giegling, Second-Grade Teacher Ganiard Elementary, Mt. Pleasant, MI

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:

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

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:

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

Help your teams get better faster. Written for busy school leaders, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders, this ultimate "grab and grow" guide details how to bridge the gap between learning and doing at every stage of the PLC journey. Rely on the book''s ample professional development activities to empower teacher teams to enhance their skills, grow together, and collectively focus on what''s working and what''s next.

Contents:Introduction

Part I: Introduction to Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC at WorkⓇChapter 1: Energize Your Collaborative TeamsChapter 2: A Continuum of Practice for PLCsChapter 3: The Team Coaching Cycle

Part II: Modules for Coaching Collaborative TeamsChapter 4: Highly Effective Collaborative TeamsChapter 5: Guaranteed and Viable CurriculumChapter 6: A Balanced and Coherent System Of AssessmentChapter 7: Productive Data ConversationsChapter 8: The Pyramid of Interventions

Part III: One Team''s TransformationChapter 9: Willis ISD: Practical Implications of Coaching TeamsAppendixReferences and ResourcesIndex