Instruction

Through this how-to guide, you'll discover how to expand your leadership capacity in order to drive sustainable progress on your PLC journey.

Discover how small schools, full of singleton teachers who are the only ones in their schools teaching their subject areas, can build successful PLCs.

Discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to districtwide PLC implementation and ensuring sustainable practices are in place for lasting results.

Discover how to build a professional learning community that fosters collaboration and collective responsibility to create lasting change and improve student learning schoolwide.

Discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to districtwide PLC implementation and ensuring sustainable practices are in place for lasting results.

Discover strategies for infusing digital tools into your PLC, and acquire a list of digital tools your team can use to foster sharing, cooperation, and collaboration.

Whitney K. Freije is an elementary school principal at A.F. Palmer Elementary, a Model PLC at Work® school in the Windsor Central School District, located in upstate New York. She specializes in empowering teachers with effective instructional practices to promote high levels of literacy and mathematics.

Alexandra Guilamo is an expert in the implementation, education, and effective leadership of dual-language, bilingual, and language-learner education. She has previously served as a teacher, academic coach, elementary school principal, and district-level educator.

Tracey A. Hulen is an elementary and middle school mathematics and SEL specialist who has experience leading two professional learning communities in Fairfax County, Virginia, to Model PLC status.

In this session, we will explore how teams develop effective mathematics instruction using 6 elements of lesson design. The process of designing engaging, targeted, and high quality instruction allows teams to dig deeply into both best practices in mathematics and grow in content knowledge. Participants will leave with a set of tools and discussion protocols to enhance their instructional planning and teaching of mathematics.