Plc and Your Small School
Plc and Your Small School

Author: Breez Longwell Daniels

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781949539615

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Small schools can have a big impact. With the guidance of author Breez Longwell Daniels, an award-winning principal in Wyoming, you will learn how to build a successful professional learning community (PLC) in your small school. The resource addresses every key aspect of a PLC system and outlines how to drive immense academic success while staying true to your school's small-town roots. Use this resource to implement a PLC that ensures high levels of learning for every student in your small school: Learn how to define your school's mission and vision in a way that both centers the school's role within the community and builds a foundation for a strong PLC. Become familiar with how to develop a strong PLC school system in a small school or rural area that contains many singleton and shared teachers. Learn how to effectively collect and use data to increase the effectiveness of your PLC system. Study the research and real-world examples that support the strategies and concepts introduced in the book to help students meet their academic goals. Contents:

How to Develop PLCs for Singletons and Small Schools
How to Develop PLCs for Singletons and Small Schools

Author: Aaron Hansen

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1942496036

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Part of the Solutions for Professional Learning Communities series. Ensure singleton teachers feel integrally involved in the PLC process with this concise, user-friendly guide. You'll quickly discover how small schools, full of singleton teachers who are the only ones in their schools teaching their subject areas, can build successful PLCs and avoid teacher isolation. Explore five methods for structuring PLC teams for better teacher support and collaboration. Better involve singletons, and read short examples that highlight how real schools have made collaboration among teachers possible. Quickly learn how to create your own singleton teacher support network using the PLC process: Understand what it means to practice collaboration lite and evaluate teacher collaboration in your school or district. Examine scenarios, opportunities, challenges, recommendations, and PLC ideas for electives teachers or other singletons. Review specific ways that teams can connect teachers and help small teams be active participants in the PLC process. Learn the essential steps for creating vertical, virtual, and interdisciplinary teams. Read sample dialogues and quick tips for how to state intentions related to building PLC teams and including singletons in the process. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Vertical Teams Chapter 2: Interdisciplinary Teams Chapter 3: Singletons Who Support Chapter 4: Virtual Teams Chapter 5: Changing Structures Epilogue Books in the Solutions for Professional Learning Communities Series: How to Use Digital Tools to Support Teachers in a PLC How to Launch PLCs in Your District How to Leverage PLCs for School Improvement How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC How to Coach Leadership in a PLC How to Develop PLCs for Singletons and Small Schools

PLC and Your Small School
PLC and Your Small School

Author: Breez Daniels

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781949539622

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"In PLC and Your Small School: Building, Deepening, and Sustaining a Culture of Collaboration for Singletons, author Breez Longwell Daniels utilizes her immense experience to provide a guide for readers seeking to build a successful PLC system in their small, rural school. Daniels notes the unique role and culture of the small, rural school and makes these considerations central to her process of PLC implementation. Daniels accomplishes this deftly by grounding the book in both a significant amount of outside research and her own experience as the principal of a small, rural school in Wyoming - Thermopolis Middle School. This school has implemented a strong PLC system and found immense academic success as a result, all while staying true to its rural, small town roots. Thus, the book takes the reader through each of the four questions of the PLC system and provides guidance on how to best answer that question in a small school. Readers will also find guidance on effective time management, the use of data, and empowering celebrations, as well as strategies to overcome obstacles that are unique to rural schools. Readers of this book will learn from the best exactly how to build a strong PLC system in their school that both centers the rural culture of their school and prepares their students for success anywhere in the 21st century"--

Professional Learning Communities at Work
Professional Learning Communities at Work

Author: Richard DuFour

Publisher: Solution Tree

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781879639607

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Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

How to Coach Leadership in a PLC
How to Coach Leadership in a PLC

Author: Marc Johnson

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2015-05-14

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1935543318

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Expand your leadership capacity. Through this how-to guide, you’ll investigate why strong leadership is a crucial element of successful PLCs and delve deep into what leadership should involve at the district and site levels. Discover leadership strategies for creating a collaborative culture, learn how to build shared values among educators, and explore tools and techniques for monitoring progress on your PLC journey.

PLC+
PLC+

Author: Douglas Fisher

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2019-05-16

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1544385730

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What makes a powerful and results-driven Professional Learning Community (PLC)? The answer is collaborative work that expands the emphasis on student learning and leverages individual teacher efficacy into collective teacher efficacy. PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design calls for strong and effective PLCs plus—and that plus is YOU. Until now, the PLC movement has been focused almost exclusively on students and what they were or were not learning. But keeping student learning at the forefront requires that we also recognize the vital role that you play in the equation of teaching and learning. This means that PLCs must take on two additional challenges: maximizing your individual expertise, while harnessing the power of the collaborative expertise you can develop with your peers. PLC+ is grounded in four cross-cutting themes—a focus on equity of access and opportunity, high expectations for all students, a commitment to building individual self-efficacy and the collective efficacy of the professional learning community and effective team activation and facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ framework supports educators in considering five essential questions as they work together to improve student learning: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit? The PLC+ framework leads educators to question practices as well as outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement learning communities that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy.

The Practice of Authentic PLCs
The Practice of Authentic PLCs

Author: Daniel R. Venables

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 141298663X

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This book for school leaders details how to implement authentic PLCs in schools and districts. Its aim is not to sell the work of PLCs, but rather to assist school leaders and teachers in developing the knowledge and tools necessary to do the work of building and sustaining real PLCs. Grounded in Venables' foundational training and work with the Coalition for Essential Schools, this book unites collaboration, facilitation, data inquiry, using protocols for student and teacher work, designing comprehensive formative assessments (CFAs) and planning data-based instructional intervention into one cohesive handbook. In a step-by-step manner, this book lays out how to establish and do the work of PLCs right the first time. And for schools already dabbling with teacher collaboration and who have instituted a version of PLCs-lite, this work can help existing groups go deeper in the doing the work of authentic, effective PLCs.

Small Schools
Small Schools

Author: Michael Klonsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-25

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1135899169

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When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for school reform ran head-on into the neo-conservative takeover of the Department of Education and its No Child Left Behind strategy for school change, a new model of federal power bent on the erosion of public space and the privatization of public schooling emerged. Michael and Susan Klonsky, educators who were among the early leaders of the small-schools movement, tell the story of how a once-promising model of creating new small and charter schools has been used by the neocons to reproduce many of the old inequities. Small Schools is the engaging story of what happens when the small-schools movement meets the Ownership Society.

On Common Ground
On Common Ground

Author: Richard DuFour

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1934009865

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This anthology presents the recommendations of education leaders, and each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and offers specific strategies for developing PLCs. These leaders have found common ground in expressing their belief in the power of PLCs although clear differences emerge regarding their perspectives on the most effective strategy for making PLCs the norm in North America.

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain

Author: Zaretta Hammond

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1483308022

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A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. The book includes: Information on how one’s culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships Ten “key moves” to build students’ learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners Prompts for action and valuable self-reflection