Energize Your Teams (ePub)

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 Teams

Chapter 2: A Continuum of Practice for PLCs

Chapter 3: The Team Coaching Cycle


Part II: Modules for Coaching Collaborative Teams

Chapter 4: Highly Effective Collaborative Teams

Chapter 5: Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

Chapter 6: A Balanced and Coherent System Of Assessment

Chapter 7: Productive Data Conversations

Chapter 8: The Pyramid of Interventions


Part III: One Team's Transformation

Chapter 9: Willis ISD: Practical Implications of Coaching Teams

Appendix

References and Resources

Index