Deepening Your Skills

Creating a Collaborative Culture

Learn the key factors and practices to help create a true collaborative culture in your school or district. Establishing a collaborative culture can significantly impact student achievement and professional practice.

• Gain clarity on the work of teams in a PLC at Work and uncover the elements of effective team development.

• Emphasize the skills and behaviors that improve communication for individuals and teams.

Identifying Essential Learnings

Answer “What is it we want our students to learn?”, the first of the four critical questions of the PLC at Work process. How can teacher teams properly identify these priorities?

• Work in collaborative teams to come to consensus and understand the need-to-know learning targets that will best prepare students.

• Ensure high levels of learning for all students.

Small Schools and Singletons in a PLC at Work®: Unique Challenges, Unlimited Potential

Discover how to utilize your strengths, organize your resources, and enact significant lasting change to ensure learning for all. As part of your professional learning, you will explore authentic artifacts from small schools at elementary and secondary levels whose staff, even singletons, are working collaboratively within the PLC framework.

• Align teams to focus on essential skills, even if the content or grade levels are not the same.

• Get SMART about data and goals.

Coaching Collaborative Teams: Amplify Your Impact

in a PLC at Work®

Participants will increase their capacity to successfully coach collaborative teams using a framework of clarity, feedback, and support to implement PLC at Work best practices.

• Examine why coaching collaborative teams is so important to successfully implementing the PLC process.

• Explore how to develop a coaching culture that promotes the development of high-performing collaborative teams.

• Learn what principals, coaches, and teacher leaders can do to successfully implement a team coaching cycle.

Leadership Tools for Deepening PLC Implementation

This workshop will provide school leaders with a framework and specific tools they can use to keep two views in focus: (1) a wide-angle view of schoolwide culture and practices and (2) a closer examination of the work of collaborative teams.

• Assess the current reality of your site’s culture, structures, student-focused collaboration, and impact on learning using a variety of tools.

• Analyze the factors that are influencing your site’s schoolwide and team-level effectiveness.

• Act on the data to provide targeted support in order to maximize your site’s efficacy by continuously improving practices and results.