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“In Make It Happen, Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic provide coaches with practical strategies for helping teacher teams identify and unpack essential standards, create and utilize common assessments, and develop interventions and extensions to ensure student learning. Grounded in research, this book offers step-by-step processes, powerful tools, and concrete examples to help teams make it happen for their students.” —Mike Mattos, Educational Consultant and Author

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“With their practical and insightful book, Make It Happen, the authors offer an important contribution to PLC literature. They provide clarity and support to the PLC process and add definitional rigor to a much misunderstood term, coaching. The tools and strategies in this resource will add depth and focus to every instructional plan. Don’t just read this book—study it, apply it, and devour it.”

Coaching With the 4 Critical Questions of PLCs at Work®

—Douglas Reeves, Founder, Creative Leadership Solutions

In Make It Happen: Coaching With the

Four Critical Questions of PLCs at Work®, authors Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic provide

Readers will: •

and the common clarity they build across

instructional coaches with the tools they

teams of educators

need to support collaborative teacher teams in their work to promote student learning. The authors identify three major variables in

Examine their role as an instructional coach and the unique requirements of

schools that impact the work of instructional

coaches in a PLC

coaches: (1) capacity, (2) culture, and •

(3) context. Using these variables as a

Study the four critical questions of a PLC

Explore situations and issues that can arise in

foundation, the book provides solutions and

schools with varying cultures and practices, as

strategies for coaches as they marry their

well as strategies to resolve them

role of coaching with professional learning

Study three major variables that act as the foundation and set the stage for their work

centered model that emphasizes student

as an instructional coach

learning outcomes. •

Reflect on their actions as a coach by exploring the support their teams need, the role they should play, and issues they should anticipate

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