Professional Learning Communities at Work™

This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy and presents new insights.

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

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.

Focus on developing people not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities.

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum.

Tiffany Mathews has over 16 years of experience in education. Throughout her career, she has worked as a teacher, department chair, assistant principal, and principal at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Carla Braun, EdD, currently serves as the director of continuous school improvement and professional learning in Westmont, Illinois, a K–12 school district. She is an experienced principal, professional development provider, interventionist, and elementary teacher.

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

This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do. Aligned with the best-selling book Learning by Doing, the video features unscripted footage of collaboration in action.

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