Amplify Your Impact: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs (Instructional Leadership Development and Coaching Methods for Collaborative Learning) (Solutions) - Softcover

Thomas W. Many; Michael J. Maffoni; Susan K. Sparks; Tesha Ferriby Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945349328 ISBN 13: 9781945349324

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2018

Synopsis

With Foreword by Rebecca DuFour

Amplify Your Impact presents K-12 educators and school leadership with a collaborative approach to coaching teachers in their PLCs. The authors share best practices and processes teams can rely on to ensure they are doing the right work in a cycle of continuous improvement. Discover concrete action steps your school can take to adopt proven collaborative coaching methods, fortify teacher teams, support leadership development, and ultimately improve student learning in classrooms.

Adopt a collaborative team-teaching approach to coaching and leadership development:

• Gain insights from teachers and empirical evidence from schools that confirm the benefits of how coaching and refining collaborative teams can strengthen PLCs.
• Use the Pathways Tool for Coaching Collaborative Teams to guide your team's conversations and team-based learning.
• Learn how to develop and use the strategy implementation guide (SIG) to map out your collaborative team success.
• Analyze coaching scenarios that illustrate how to turn ineffective team meetings into positive collaborative learning experiences.
• Increase instructional leadership development that promotes reflective coaching and a collaborative approach.

Contents:
Introduction

Part I: The Why, How, and What of Coaching Collaborative Teams
Chapter 1: Combining Coaching and Collaboration
Chapter 2: Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC

Part II: The Framework for Coaching Collaborative Teams
Chapter 3: Amplifying Your Impact With Clarity
Chapter 4: Amplifying Your Impact With Feedback
Chapter 5: Amplifying Your Impact With Support

Part III: Putting It All Together to Amplify Your Impact
Chapter 6: Making it Real: Coaching Scenarios

Afterword
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author

Thomas W. Many is an educational consultant in Denver, Colorado. Tom retired as the superintendent of schools in Kildeer Countryside CCSD 96 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Tom's career included twenty years of experience as superintendent, in addition to serving as a classroom teacher, learning center director, curriculum supervisor, principal, and assistant superintendent. District 96 earned the reputation as a place where the faculty and administration worked together to become one of the premier elementary school districts in the United States during his tenure as superintendent.

In addition to nearly 40 articles, Tom is the coauthor of Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work, Third Edition with Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Mike Mattos; a contributing author in The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community; and coauthor of Aligning School Districts as PLCs with Mark Van Clay and Perry Soldwedel.

To learn more about Tom's work, follow @tmany96 on Twitter.

Michael J. Maffoni, an educator since 1987, has a diverse background that includes experience as a teacher, principal, and district administrator in a variety of districts and school settings in Colorado. He also teaches courses in educational leadership as an affiliate faculty member at Regis University.

Michael is the director of professional learning communities for Jefferson County Public Schools, Golden, Colorado. In this current role, Michael leads PLC implementation in over one hundred schools throughout the district. His collaborative leadership has been instrumental in developing an integrated PLC support system, monitoring structure, and associated professional learning for district leaders, principals, instructional coaches, and teachers.

To learn more about Michael's work, follow @mjmaffoni64 on Twitter.

Susan K. Sparks is an educational consultant in Denver, Colorado. Susan retired in 2008 as the executive director of the Front Range BOCES (boards of cooperative educational services) for Teacher Leadership, a partnership with the University of Colorado at Denver. Susan spent her career in St. Vrain Valley School District as a teacher and with four different BOCES as staff developer, assistant director, and executive director. She consults internationally in collaborative cultures, conflict resolution, contract negotiations, and community engagement.

Susan contributed to The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community and coauthored How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC and Leverage: Using PLCs to Promote Lasting Improvement in Schools.

To learn more about Susan's work, follow @sparks12_susan on Twitter.

Tesha Ferriby Thomas, EdS, is a school improvement and English language arts consultant at the Macomb Intermediate School District in Clinton Township, Michigan, where she currently works with struggling districts to improve systems that lead to increased student achievement. In addition to working with superintendents to improve district systems, she facilitates professional learning with teachers and administrators of all 21 Macomb County school districts on topics such as balanced assessment, professional learning communities, and effective writing instruction. She has been in education since 1995, serving as a teacher, middle school assistant principal, and assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, where she led the districtwide implementation of professional learning communities.

Review

"If you recognize the need for significant structural and cultural shifts in our schools and want to learn at a deeper level about the work of collaborative teams and how coaching those teams can enhance and accelerate the teams' impact on student learning, then you absolutely have the right book in your hands. Amplify Your Impact will supply you with what you need to provide clarity, feedback, and support to the engines of continuous improvement."

--From the foreword by Rebecca DuFour, Author and Educational Consultant

"Growing and supporting teams in a PLC is a rather large task. This book will increase the impact of leaders in a PLC who need to move their teams in the right direction."

--Joseph Powell, Instructional Coach, James Bowie High School, Austin, Texas

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1945349328
• ISBN 13: 9781945349324
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 184