Professional Learning Communities at Work™

In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator’s role is more important than ever. This book addresses your toughest challenges with practical strategies and inspiring insight.

Chapter stories reveal good decisions and mistakes inherent to the PLC process. The authors analyze each scenario and offer practical recommendations and tools.

This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy and presents new insights.

The authors examine how district leadership, principal leadership, team leadership, and effective teachers can improve student achievement.

With a focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership, the authors show how to grow PLCs by encouraging innovation at every level.

Focus on developing people not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities.

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum.

Kristina Medlin is a dedicated professional learning community trainer in the Deer Valley Unified School District, a Model Professional Learning Community at Work® district. She works passionately to build capacity and the professional learning communities process across campuses.

Tiffany Mathews has over 16 years of experience in education. Throughout her career, she has worked as a teacher, department chair, assistant principal, and principal at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Carla Braun, EdD, currently serves as the director of continuous school improvement and professional learning in Westmont, Illinois, a K–12 school district. She is an experienced principal, professional development provider, interventionist, and elementary teacher.