Energize Your Teams: Powerful Tools for Coaching Collaborative Teams in Plcs at Work(r) (a Comprehensive Guide for Leading Collaborative Teams to Reach Their Full Potential)

Help your teams get better faster. Written for busy school leaders, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders, this ultimate "grab and grow" guide details how to bridge the gap between learning and doing at every stage of the PLC journey. Rely on the book's ample professional development activities to empower teacher teams to enhance their skills, grow together, and collectively focus on what's working and what's next.

• Understand every aspect of a professional learning community and how collaborative teams and school leadership play a role in them.
• Access 23 professional development modules with corresponding articles for job-embedded, just-in-time team learning.
• Explore the different levels of PLCs on the PLC continuum.
• Learn a proven, effective coaching cycle that will fortify your collaborative team school improvement efforts.
• Improve team collaboration regarding all aspects of your learning community, including curriculum, assessment, and intervention.
• Determine the next steps that will help you realize the true potential of your PLC.

Contents: <BR>Introduction

Part I: Introduction to Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC at WorkⓇ <BR>Chapter 1: Energize Your Collaborative Teams <BR>Chapter 2: A Continuum of Practice for PLCs <BR>Chapter 3: The Team Coaching Cycle

Part II: Modules for Coaching Collaborative Teams <BR>Chapter 4: Highly Effective Collaborative Teams <BR>Chapter 5: Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum <BR>Chapter 6: A Balanced and Coherent System Of Assessment <BR>Chapter 7: Productive Data Conversations <BR>Chapter 8: The Pyramid of Interventions

Part III: One Team's Transformation <BR>Chapter 9: Willis ISD--Practical Implications of Coaching Teams <BR>Appendix <BR>References and Resources <BR>Index

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 20 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.

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 central administrator in a variety of districts in Colorado. He also teaches courses in educational leadership as an affiliate faculty member at Regis University.

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 (board 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.

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

Tesha Ferriby Thomas is a school improvement facilitator and language arts consultant at the Macomb Intermediate School District in Macomb County, Michigan. She has worked in this capacity since 2012, supporting struggling districts and school leaders by helping them embed systemic practices that result in improved student achievement. Her passion for the power of PLCs has grown over 20 years as she has worked to support PLC implementation as a teacher, department chairperson, assistant principal, and assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.

To learn more about Tesha's work, follow @tferribythomas on Twitter.

To book Thomas W. Many, Michael J. Maffoni, Susan K. Sparks, or Tesha Ferriby Thomas for professional development, contact pd@SolutionTree.com.