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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:
Understand the essential role principals and teacher leaders play in leading PLCs Foster an understanding of how PLCs can support implementation of major instructional shifts such as the new Common Core State Standards Apply high-leverage strategies across your own school and district to improve instruction and better serve the needs of all studentsYou’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
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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
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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
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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.
Understand every aspect of a professional learning community and how collaborative teams and school leadership play a role in them.Access 23 professional development modules with corresponding articles for job-embedded, just-in-time team learning.Explore the different levels of PLCs on the PLC continuum.Learn a proven, effective coaching cycle that will fortify your collaborative team school improvement efforts.Improve team collaboration regarding all aspects of your learning community, including curriculum, assessment, and intervention.Determine the next steps that will help you realize the true potential of your PLC.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
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25 years on, the PLC at Work® process continues to produce results across the United States and worldwide. In this fourth edition of the bestseller Learning by Doing, the authors use updated research and time-tested knowledge to address current education challenges, from learning gaps exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic to the need to drive a highly effective multitiered system of supports.
This book will help K–12 administrators, school leaders, and teacher teams: Build shared knowledge of both critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying the key PLC termsLearn new, more in-depth strategies for coaching in a PLC at WorkMake honest assessments of student learning, examine their school culture, and implement conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspectiveTake immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap and implement PLC concepts in their school and districtRecognize that the knowledge needed to support students in achieving higher levels is readily available, and the next step is to transform this awareness into an action plan for school improvementFollow the step-by-step format outlined in each chapter to advance their school’s PLC journey and drive continuous improvementContents:IntroductionChapter 1: A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities at WorkChapter 2: Defining a Clear and Compelling PurposeChapter 3: Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 4: Coaching Collaborative Teams in a Professional Learning Community at WorkChapter 5: Creating a Results Orientation in a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 6: Establishing a Focus on LearningChapter 7: Creating Team-Developed Common Formative AssessmentsChapter 8: Responding When Some Students Don’t LearnChapter 9: Hiring, Orienting, and Retaining New StaffChapter 10: Addressing Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 11: Implementing the Professional Learning Community Process DistrictwideConclusion: Touching the Emotions—Creating a Culture of CaringReferencesIndex