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Explore the practical steps teacher teams must take to establish clear, comprehensive assessment systems that guide instruction and strengthen PLCs.

Geared toward a collaborative approach, this book equips educators to write effective individualized education plans (IEPs). The authors break down IEPs to provide a practical working knowledge of how collaborative teams can create stronger IEPs, leading to more robust instruction and learning.

Transform education from inside the classroom. This book delivers best practices of collaborative teacher leadership, supporting the strategies with research and real classroom stories.

Access forty weekly planning pages, succinct summaries of professional learning community (PLC) concepts, and many more tools that will help you and your team thrive throughout the year. This plan book, which contains many reproducible forms, helps teacher teams foster collaboration.

Explore research-based steps and strategies you can use to increase the effectiveness of collaborative teams and enhance professional learning communities.

Collaborative Teams That Work is the ultimate guide to excellent collaboration. Rely on this resource as you set up collaborative teams within your PLC, and then refer back to it before, during, and after meetings to maintain focus on the right work.

How did one of the lowest-performing and most dysfunctional school districts in California become a top turnaround district? It all came down to one thing: building collective team efficacy. Through the support and guidance of this resource, you will reflect, find parallels to your own story, and apply the real-world lessons learned at Sanger Unified to the school community you serve.

Explore the four key sources of collective teacher efficacy: mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, persuasion, and positive emotions. Understand how to tap into these sources to overcome the barriers that impede the development of collective teacher efficacy. With a focus on sustained improvement, this guide provides practical steps to achieve lasting impact.

“Common Denominators is a collection of stories braided together with research-informed strategies and tools,” writes author Jennifer A. Lenhardt. Make sense of student engagement and belonging by using mathematics concepts that illustrate our common humanity and illuminate a clear, sustainable path for honoring and meeting all students’ needs.

This book will help collaborative teams meet the challenges of a new landscape of education—one in which we’re now familiar with formative assessment and we strive to improve our assessment design and allow data to inform instruction to best support student achievement.