Professional Learning Communities at Work™

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.

This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do. Aligned with the best-selling book Learning by Doing, the video features unscripted footage of collaboration in action.

This short program for PLC leaders uses unscripted interviews and action footage to illustrate the role of effective leadership, particularly from the principal.

Dr. Buffum shows you how the big ideas of a PLC are foundationally important when implementing RTI.

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.