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About This Book
Collaborate for schoolwide success. Establishing a collaborative culture can significantly impact student achievement and professional practice. With this how-to guide, youll gain clarity on the work of teams in a PLC and uncover the elements of effective team development. Discover skills and behaviors that individuals and teams can improve regarding communication, facilitating data conversations, and managing consensus while working together.
Benefits:
Consult case studies that illustrate the problems that teacher teams may face as they collaborate and how to address them.
Evaluate the stages that teams will move through as they collaborate to reach agreement.
Consider step-by-step processes for cultivating effective collaboration.
Determine the responsibilities for each member of a collaborative school team.
Explore the behaviors teachers should commit to in order to foster productive listening and participation among teams.
Topics : Professional Learning Community
Table Of Content
About the Authors
Introduction
The Obstacles
The Solution
Cultivating Collaboration in a Professional Learning Community
Chapter 1: Dispositions
Common Issues
Seek Clarity and Create Commitment for Productive Behaviors and Dispositions
Self-Assess and Reflect
Create Team Mind States
Focus on the Work of Student Learning
Chapter 2: Process
Deciding Whether a Work Session Is the Right Process
Walking in Their Shoes: Diagnosing and Planning
Celebratin Monitoring, and Honoring
Best Hopes and Worst Fears
Decision Making
Activities for the Different Phases of Decision Making and Teamwork
Interest-Based Strategies
Focusing Four
Keep, Drop, Create
Ending Meetings
Protocols
Chapter 3: Roles and Responsibilities
Facilitator
Team Leader
Recorder
Timekeeper
Process Observer
Summarizer
Most Responsible Person
Team member
principal
Chapter 4: Skills and Behaviors
Interpersonal Skills
Listening and Speaking
Challenging Conversations.
Consensus and Conflict Skills
Data Conversation Skills
Chapter 5: Conclusion
References
About the Authors
Susan K. Sparks:
Susan K. Sparks has served as a teacher, staff developer, and executive director. Her areas of expertise include consensus building, decision making, contract negotiations, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and professional learning communities.
Thomas W. Many:
Thomas W. Many, EdD, works with teachers, adminis¬trators, school boards, parents, and other education stake-holders on organizational leadership, implementation and change, and PLC at Work strategies and concepts.
Dr. Many’s long and distinguished career includes twenty years of experience as a superintendent. He has also served as a classroom teacher, learning center director, curriculum supervisor, principal, and assistant superintendent.
As former superintendent of Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 in Illinois, Dr. Many used the tenets of the PLC at Work process to ensure high levels of learning for all students. He played a key role in preparing elementary and middle-grade students to enter Adlai E. Stevenson High School, a nationally recognized PLC. Under Dr. Many’s leadership, student achievement in District 96 improved every year for twelve consecutive years. More than 95 percent of all stu¬dents now meet or exceed state standards. The district has been especially effective in helping students with special needs improve their academic performance. It has become recognized as one of the premier elementary school districts in the United States. A dedicated PLC practitioner, he is a compelling and sought-after speaker.
Dr. Many has written numerous articles and has coauthored books.
To learn more about Dr. Many’s work, visit AllThingsPLC (www.allthingsPLC.info).
To book Mike Mattos, Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, or Thomas W. Many for professional development, contact [email protected].
ISBN: 9786038147610
Author: Susan K. Sparks & Thomas W. Many
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2018
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 100
