Game Plan: A Playbook for Developing Winning PLCs at Work - implement a meaningful focus on your school culture (Teaching in Focus)

With this book, school leaders can create a uniform game plan to foster a collaborative community of educators, develop a shared learning focus, and meet their PLC s growth goals. Examine new concepts of educational leadership, and learn how to effectively assemble schoolwide commitment to PLC principles. Explore coaching points and tools you can use to customize strategies for your specific leaders, teachers, and community members, who must share collective responsibility to drive lasting change for your PLC.

Benefits

• Discover why a well-defined game plan is necessary for schools and districts to build solid collaborative relationships.
• Explore strategies for keeping key stakeholders involved and committed to your school s PLC.
• Examine how collaborative teaching teams can improve student learning through reviewing and refining curriculum and assessment.
• Learn how to collect assessment data to monitor school effectiveness.
• Use facilitation guides, conversation prompts, templates, and rubrics to evaluate and build your educational system s game plan.

Contents
Introduction: How Leadership Teams Develop a Winning Game Plan
Chapter 1: Bringing Clarity to the Plan
Chapter 2: Collaborating to Turn Good Teams Into Championship Teams
Chapter 3: Increasing Student Learning
Chapter 4: Focusing on Results and Purposeful Involvement
Chapter 5: Avoiding Pitfalls and Promoting Winning Throughout the Organization