Professional Learning Communities

Discover how to build a professional learning community that fosters collaboration and collective responsibility to create lasting change and improve student learning schoolwide.

Discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to districtwide PLC implementation and ensuring sustainable practices are in place for lasting results.

Discover strategies for infusing digital tools into your PLC, and acquire a list of digital tools your team can use to foster sharing, cooperation, and collaboration.

Create a uniform game plan to foster a collaborative community of learners, develop a shared focus, and meet growth goals.

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

Identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success.

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.

Understand how to properly use the SMART goal process to effect change and achieve real school improvement.

This book breaks down the complex process of aligning all levels districtwide in order for a professional learning community to reach its full potential.

A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs.