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Powerful Guiding Coalitions
How to Build and Sustain the Leadership Team in Your PLC at Work®
Building a PLC is not a journey taken alone. That’s where the guiding coalition comes in. With clear guidance, this book examines every aspect of how to create, develop, and sustain this essential team that will help champion and lead the change process.
Benefits
- Define a guiding coalition and understand its importance.
- Learn basic PLC concepts and principles to inform guiding coalition processes.
- Understand the three basic school structures to ensure a proper PLC foundation.
- Form and maintain strong relationships that strengthen leadership.
- Implement levers to improve school culture and create effective, efficient leadership.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Creating a Powerful Guiding Coalition
Chapter 2: Leading the PLC Basics
Chapter 3: Building a Solid PLC Foundation
Chapter 4: Building Powerful Relationships
Chapter 5: Promoting Collaborative Leadership
Chapter 6: Leveraging Your Leadership
Epilogue
STUDY GUIDE
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Figure 1.3: Tool for creating a list of potential guiding coalition members
- Figure 1.4: Sample application for the position of school guiding coalition member
- Figure 1.5: Sample guiding coalition applicant rubric
- Figure 1.6: Effective practices for the guiding coalition and collaborative teams
- Figure 1.7: Where Do We Go From Here? worksheet
- Action Plan for Making Structural Changes to Your Guiding Coalition
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.1: Tool for determining whether your guiding coalition is a group, a team, or somewhere in between
- Figure 2.4: Potential look-fors and listen-fors during collaborative meetings and feedback topics
- Action Plan for Leading the PLC Basics
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.5: A data picture of our school
- Figure 3.6: Celebration and recognition survey
- Figure 3.8: SMART goal worksheet
- Figure 3.9: Tool for assessing the initial stages to ensuring a strong PLC culture
- Action Plan for Improving Your PLC Foundation or Structure
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Relationship self-assessment for guiding coalition members
- Figure 4.3: Actions and behaviors that strengthen and enhance trust among collaborative teams
- Action Plan for Repairing a Violation of Trust
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Epilogue
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
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