Formative Tools for Leaders in a Plc: Assessing, Analyzing, and Acting to Support Collaborative Teams (Implementing Effective Professional Learning Co


Book Description

Learn, do, and lead with the guidance of Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC at Work(R) by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic. With this practical resource, you'll first discover how to gather evidence from staff about PLC practices, processes, and products. Then you'll explore how to use that evidence to gauge the effectiveness of your professional learning community (PLC) and make informed and targeted decisions about your collective next steps for a school culture of continuous improvement. This book will teach you how to implement professional learning communities more effectively: ● Discover how to gather formative evidence from a number of sources to implement collaborative structures and a schoolwide change process. ● Understand how to use the three stages of assessing, analyzing, and acting as a formative feedback loop to improve instructional practices. ● Gain clarity on what makes a successful professional learning community and where to focus your school's energy and effort moving forward. ● Access tools and templates designed to support and strengthen team practices in order to shape school culture and ensure learning for all students. ● Explore how teams effectively answer the four critical questions of a PLC. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Foreword Introduction Part 1 Chapter 1: A Culture of Learning for All Chapter 2: The School's Collaborative Structures Chapter 3: Quality Instructional Practice Chapter 4: Schoolwide Systems of Support Part 2 Chapter 5: A Focus on Getting Clear About What Students Should Know and Do Chapter 6: A Focus on How Teams Gather Information About Student Learning Chapter 7: A Focus on Supporting Students Who Need Additional Time and Support Chapter 8: A Focus on Responding When Students Have Already Learned Epilogue References and Resources Index




Common Formative Assessment


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Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning




Professional Learning Communities at Work


Book Description

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.




The School Leader's Guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work TM


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Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at WorkTM process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more.




Leaders of Learning


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For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students—by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms




The Comprehensive Guide to Working with Student Teachers


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"This guide provides a comprehensive toolkit for the complex work of field instruction, including mentoring approaches; conversation stems; conferencing techniques; lesson debriefing questions; understandings of programmatic goals; observation, assessment, and feedback methods; and more. Chapters are accessibly written and filled with concrete examples, tips, worksheets, and activities"--




The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work


Book Description

"In The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work, author William M. Ferriter provides educators with a collection of tools and resources designed to strengthen the practice of collaborative teams. Teachers working in a professional learning community (PLC) have the capacity to improve learning for every student; however, teacher teams face many challenges while striving to make a meaningful impact on learning. The tools in this book help educators combat the problems that teams encounter and provide an explicit structure for learning teams. Ferriter organizes the book around the four critical questions of PLCs, and each chapter thoroughly explores core behaviors that efficient teams require and templates for extending the work. By reading this book, educators will learn how to navigate the challenges their teams face by receiving targeted support"--




Building a Professional Learning Community at Work TM


Book Description

Get a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts. Each chapter begins with a story focused on a particular challenge. A follow-up analysis of the story identifies the good decisions or common mistakes made in relation to that particular scenario. The authors examine the research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with recommendations and tools you can use in your school.




Science Formative Assessment, Volume 1


Book Description

Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices that support conceptual understanding. Science Formative Assessment shows K-12 educators how to weave formative assessment into daily instruction. Discover 75 assessment techniques linked to the Next Generation Science Standards and give classroom practices a boost with: Descriptions of how each technique promotes learning Charts linking core concepts at each grade level to scientific practices Implementation guidance, such as required materials and student grouping Modifications for different learning styles Ideas for adapting techniques to other content areas




The Collaborative Teacher


Book Description

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.