Professional Learning Communities at Work®

Chapter stories reveal good decisions and mistakes inherent to the PLC process. The authors analyze each scenario and offer practical recommendations and tools.

Accessible language and compelling K12 stories illustrate how RTI is most effective when built on the Professional Learning Communities at Work® process.

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.

Transform education from inside the classroom. This book delivers best practices of collaborative teacher leadership, supporting the strategies with research and real classroom stories.

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

Examine a colorful cross section of educators experiences with PLCs. This collection of insights from practitioners throughout North America highlights the benefits of PLCs.

Define a clear starting point for building a PLC. Readers access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how successful PLCs function.

This classic resource offers practical information about transforming schools into learning-focused, results-oriented PLCs. Learn research-based recommendations for implementing PLC at Work concepts.

The focus is to show how your urban school can make an impact on student achievement and change the trajectory of student lives using the time available during the day, the resources in the book, and the Brilliance in the Building - your amazing staff! The greatness of this webinar is the review of all the resources in the book available for educators to use immediately. I created all of the reproducibles based on 25 years of extensive research and actual use in schools. Leaders and staff in urban schools cannot do this work in isolation; they must work together to accomplish their goals, so therefore the work in this book is grounded in the PLC at Work principles. Let’s go!

Alvin Thomas, EdD, is a principal in a school district in Georgia and a part-time professor at Kennesaw State University and Georgia State University. He has 17 years of experience as an assistant principal, student behavior program specialist, and teacher.