Keeping professional learning communities focused on goals:
High functioning professional learning communities don’t happen by chance. They require deliberate efforts and structures to ensure efficiency and focus, and to ignite action. The first books in the PLC+ series challenged PLC teams to engage in difficult discussions about equity of access, high expectations for all students, and a commitment to building individual and team efficacy. All of this requires activation and skilled facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ Activator′s Guide offers a practical approach, real-life scenarios, and examples that show activators what to expect and how to navigate their PLC+ on a successful and collective journey. Readers will find:
- Templates to help activators prepare for PLC+ meetings
- Approaches for fostering and nurturing collaboration
- Vignettes from real schools that are implementing PLC+
- Reflection questions with spaces for activators to record notes
- Solutions for addressing barriers that often arise in PLC+ teams
Activators will find this an essential guide to keeping PLC+ team discussions goal-focused and the work centered on building the collective efficacy of the team.
Tabella dei contenuti
Letter From the Authors
About the Authors
Introduction
Part 1. Activating Your PLC+: Overview
Activating Your PLC+
What Effective Activators Do
Part 2. Activation Requires Effective Collaboration
Facilitation Versus Activation
Five Qualities of a Good Activator
Part 3. Activating Your PLC+: Establishing Roles and Developing Team Cohesion
Supporting Team Cohesion
Establishing PLC+ Roles
Stepping Into Roles Matched to PLC+ Team Member Strengths
Part 4. Activating Your PLC+: Norms and Authentic Instructional Protocols in Your PLC+
Establishing Operating Norms
Social and Emotional Check-Ins
Establishing Process Norms
Operating Norms Versus Process Norms
Utilizing Authentic Instructional Protocols
Part 5. Activating the Five Essential Questions and Four Crosscutting Values of Your PLC+
Activating Guiding Question 1: Where Are We Going?
Activating Guiding Question 2: Where Are We Now?
Activating Guiding Question 3: How Do We Move Learning Forward?
Activating Guiding Question 4: What Did We Learn Today?
Activating Guiding Question 5: Who Benefited and Who Did Not Benefit?
Part 6. The Nuts and Bolts of Your PLC+
Scheduling PLC+ Meetings
Setting Aside the Time for the Work of the PLC+
Overcoming Challenges: (Not Enough) Time
Developing an Assessment Calendar
Part 7. Activating a High-Impact and High-Functioning PLC+
High Impact Versus High Functioning
Part 8. Activating Conversations Focused on Equity
Closing Remarks
References
Index
Circa l’autore
Nancy Frey is professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Nancy was a teacher, academic coach, and central office resource coordinator in Florida. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. She is a member of the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Research Panel. She has published widely on literacy, quality instruction, and assessment, as well as books such as The Artificial Intelligences Playbook, How Scaffolding Works, How Teams Work, and The Vocabulary Playbook.
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