Leadership

Identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Treat yourself to daily moments of reflection with inspirational quotes collected from a decade of work by renowned PLC experts.

Closing student achievement gaps requires specific actions focused on acceleration and leveling up strategies to achieve grade-level proficiency or beyond. Acceleration is the pathway; we cannot continue to go backward if our goal is to move forward. Discover how to erase inequities in student learning while building hope and confidence in both teachers and students. This is equity in action.

Explore how teacher teams can ensure equitable literacy learning so that every student masters essential reading standards. Jacqueline Heller and Paula Maeker, authors of Literacy in a PLC at Work®: Guiding Teams to Get Going and Get Better in K–6 Reading, will help literacy educators navigate the teaching, learning, assessment, and feedback cycle of reading through the lens of Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work.

As educators and leaders across the nation grapple with the challenge of changing policies, practices, and procedures to ensure high levels of learning for all students, the inability to effectively change the mindsets of colleagues, faculty, and staff is proving to be the biggest hurdle of all. Hence, in order for systems to change, outlooks will also need to change.