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The Handbook for Highly Effective Teams in a PLC at Work®
Essential Actions for Tackling Critical Issues
This book provides a clear, practical roadmap for teams to enhance their impact by building a strong foundation for collaboration, gaining clarity on essential student learning, leveraging assessments as learning tools, and ensuring every student receives the time and support needed to achieve high levels.
Practical action steps for educators to building highly effective teams
Transform your teacher teams into the driving force of student success and collaboration with this practical, action-driven guide. A companion to Learning by Doing, this handbook delivers 15 essential actions that highly effective teams use to strengthen collaboration, clarify student learning goals, use assessments as powerful learning tools, and ensure every student gets the time and support they need to learn at high levels. This easy-to-read, conversational book provides the tools, strategies, and real-world insights teams need to boost student achievement.
Perfect for K–12 administrators, teachers, and instructional coaches, this book will help you:
- Build high-impact teams with 15 critical actions that drive student learning
- Establish clear success criteria and assessment protocols to measure progress
- Access practical tools and resources for every foundational aspect of collaboration
- Structure lessons effectively to support struggling students while challenging high achievers
- Continuously refine instructional practices using student results and team analysis
Related Topics
AssessmentInstructionProfessional Learning Communities at Work®Professional Learning Communities
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“Teaching is far too complex for any teacher to be able to meet the curriculum demands and their students’ learning needs on their own. If you want your school or classroom to be a place where all students learn, then you must practice effective collaboration with colleagues. The Handbook For Highly Effective Teams in s PLC At Work provides educators with a road map to show us the way and the tools to show us how. This is a must-read for any teacher or principal who wants all students to learn.”
“This handbook should be a mandatory resource for every teacher team working in a PLC. It methodically helps teams understand the what, why, and how of effective teams. More importantly, the fifteen essential actions embedded throughout this handbook will truly transform the work teacher teams engage in. This is a fantastic practical resource to help teacher teams advance the learning for all students!”
“The Handbook for Highly Effective Teams in a PLC at Work is a must-read (and re-read) for every member of a PLC! As the engine that drives the work of a professional learning community, every team needs this book to go from maintaining to fine-tuning to supercharging their collaboration. The work of educators and the charge to do this work together can seem dauntingly complex, and the results promised can, at times, feel elusive. The authors of this book, with brilliant clarity, outline the essential actions teams must undertake together, intentionally and systematically, to accelerate student learning and achieve high levels of learning for all. This is the key to shifting the work of teams from ‘PLC lite’ to ‘PLC right!’”
“I have long believed that for an entire faculty to be exceptional, something every school should strive to accomplish, there should be a deep understanding of how to create highly effective collaboration. The Handbook for Highly Effective Teams in a PLC at Work is filled with rationale, research, tools, and strategies on how to make that happen. The esteemed authors of this book have used their years of experience, knowledge, and experimentation to take the reader on a journey of reflection to action. The suggestions they provide, along with the resources they have developed, will give the reader a comprehensive, yet simple path for collaborative teams to become exceptional.”
