Solution Tree

Designed for teachers and leaders who want to disrupt the status quo, bust out of PLC Lite, and persistently pursue a culture of continuous improvement, this book carries it all. It emphasizes creating a student-centered approach to teaching and learning in a PLC that prioritizes student agency and efficacy.

Build a mindset for collaborative learning using the problem-based learning approach. With a guided plan and scenarios designed to facilitate a shift in thinking, leaders and teacher teams will walk away feeling mentally prepared to navigate the PLC process.

Equip your students with the literacy support they need to think, read, and write like mathematicians. With literacy strategies that form students’ ability to estimate, interpret, reason, and understand cause-and-effect relationships, teachers can prepare students for their future beyond school.

In this book, the authors provide the guidance and resources for schools to use the four pillars as the root of their PLC process. Discover strategies and tools to audit your mission statement, understand the role of a guiding coalition, and create collective commitments.

Through engaging examples and accessible language, this book provides a focused system of self-disciplines for developing PLC leadership.

Whether you’re in collaborative teams identifying grade-level standards, school leadership teams assessing Tier 2 interventions, or intervention teams helping at-risk students, this book offers educators the targeted tools necessary to create a highly effective multitiered system of supports (MTSS) that can ensure high levels of learning for every student.

Teacher team leaders, this book is for you. It will build your knowledge and skills in approaches and actions that get more done in less time, and with greater joy, to help your team truly become the engine that drives the most promising strategy for improving student achievement.

Build a defensible body of evidence for every student. The IMPACT framework and the seven design principles of competency-based learning, as presented in this book, make this practical and doable for professional learning communities. This framework helps with clarifying learning expectations, planning assessments, and establishing protocols for proficient performance.

This book is for educators who have a strong desire to lead the type of change in districts and schools that impacts learning for both students and the adults who serve them. With practical action steps and tools, the book helps educators put their district’s or school’s mission into action to achieve their vision.

This guidebook of practical research-supported advice and user-friendly tools shows educators how to build collective teacher efficacy in a practical, step-by-step way, whether they are just starting their PLC journeys or are in high-performing PLCs and looking to deepen their practice.