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The PLC Dashboard
Implementing, Leading, and Sustaining Your Professional Learning Community at Work®
Author Brig Leane introduces the PLC Dashboard, a tool designed to help administrators and teachers efficiently implement the PLC at Work® process. This resource utilizes a seven-step learning cycle, complete with illustrative examples, concise templates, and reflective exercises. The dashboard helps clarify and strengthen the PLC process to implement lasting changes that improve the overall quality of students’ education.
Benefits
- Organize effective team leadership to guide and facilitate the PLC process.
- Set clear priorities for student learning via essential learning targets.
- Establish consistent quality benchmarks for assessing student progress toward essential learning targets.
- Develop a PLC Dashboard to set goals and schedules for teams and singletons.
- Promote collaboration and continued professional development for teachers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Beginning With the End in Mind
Chapter 2: Getting Ready
Chapter 3: Implementing the Seven-Step Learning Cycle
Chapter 4: Providing Time and Support
Chapter 5: Implementing the PLC Dashboard
Epilogue: Putting It All Together
Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions
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Chapter 1: Beginning With the End in Mind
Chapter 2: Getting Ready
- Figure 2.1: Leadership Team Selection Protocol
- Figure 2.3: “What’s On Our Plates?” Activity Guide
- Figure 2.5: Are We Ready? Checklist
Chapter 3: Implementing the Seven-Step Learning Cycle
- Figure 3.3: Identifying Essential Standards Chart
- Figure 3.4: Essential Standards Unpacking Template
- Figure 3.8: Student Notebook Tracking of Essential Learning Targets (First Page Only)
Chapter 4: Providing Time and Support
- Figure 4.1: Essential Learning Target Plan for Teams
- Figure 4.2: Essential Learning Target Plan for Singletons
- Figure 4.9: Collaborative Team Norms Template
- Figure 4.11: Team and Singleton PLC Dashboard Check-In Template
Chapter 5: Implementing the PLC Dashboard
- Figure 5.3: Questions to Guide the Work of the PLC Dashboard Initiating Stage
- Figure 5.6: Questions to guide the work of the PLC Dashboard—Implementing Stage
- Figure 5.8: Questions to Guide the Work of the PLC Dashboard—Developing Stage
- Figure 5.12: Questions to Guide the Work of the PLC Dashboard—Sustaining Stage
- Figure 5.13: The PLC Dashboard Continuum
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
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