Bringing Your Learning Community to Life: A Road Map for Sustainable School Improvement [Paperback]

This do-it-yourself guide offers specific tasks, exercises, and brief case studies to guide educators step by step through the process of establishing a PLC in nine to twelve months.This do-it-yourself guide offers specific tasks, exercises, and brief case studies to guide educators step by step through the process of establishing a PLC in nine to twelve months. This book is structured for the busy educator! The authors?invite readers to journey toward professionalizing learning spaces. From the beginning of the journey (wherever you are) through the high points, low points, midpoint, and endpoint, the reader is converted to the PLC way. A must-read for staff developers, instructional coaches, school improvement coordinators, and human relations specialists. Excellent cases support and clarify each point, and the examples are very true to life and useful to the reader. The timeframes were also very true to lifechange does not occur overnight, and the book clearly states thisAcknowledgments
About the Authors
Preface
Section I. Laying the Foundation
1. Having Productive Discussions 101: Cultivating Individual Skills
Introduction
Ten Pillars of Productive Discussion
Interpreting the Pillars
Initial Self-Assessment
Practice Exercises 1-3
Conclusion
2. Having Productive Discussions 102: Cultivating Group Skills
Introduction
Practice Exercises 1-4
Self-Assessment Reprise
Future Use of the 10 Pillars
Conclusion
Section II. Putting Your New Skills to Work
3. Shaping a Group Identity
Introduction
Soul Searching via a Careful, Clean, and Crisp Culture Audit
Metaphor, the Path to the Future
Professional Learning Community Attributes
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