Energize Your Teams: Powerful Tools for Coaching Collaborative Teams in Plcs at Work(r) (a Comprehensive Guide for Leading Collaborative Te, Many Thomas W., Maffoni Michael J., Sparks Susan K.

Contents:
Section 1
Preface--Districtwide Planning
How to Use this Plan Book
Section 2
Monthly PLC Work (July Through June)
Monthly Calendar
Daily Planner
Monthly Reflections Tool
Section 3
Midyear Self-Reflection Tool
End-of-Year Self-Reflection Tool
Project-Planning Tool
Meeting-Planning Tool

• Review essential elements of effective PLCs and how these essential elements influence the instructional coaching of collaborative teams.
• Study the Strategy Implementation Guide (SIG) and Pathways for Coaching Collaborative Teams tools and how to use them in the coaching of collaborative teams.
• Acquire new insights, confront new questions, and explore new approaches that promote higher levels of student learning and effective professional learning communities for teachers.
• Discover numerous strategies to use during the effective group coaching of collaborative teams at every stage of learning to meet adaptive challenges.
• Learn the benefits of "drilling deeper" into the PLC process, as well as viewing the teacher as a reflective practitioner.

Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Making a Commitment to Coaching Teams
Chapter 1: How Teams Create Habits of Professional Practice
Chapter 2: The Essential Elements of Highly Effective Teams identifies
Part II, Understanding Essential Elements of Highly Effective Teams in a PLC
Chapter 3: Learning Together--The Power of Collective Inquiry
Chapter 4: Staying Restless--The Impact of Continuous Improvement
Chapter 5: Being Urgent--The Value of an Action Orientation
Chapter 6: Getting Better--The Significance of a Focus on Results
Part III: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work
Chapter 7: Coaching for Assessing a Team's Current Reality
Chapter 8: Believing in Your Team--Coaching Collective Efficacy
Appendix A: Stages of Learning and Essential Elements of a Highly Effective PLC
Appendix B: Action Planning Template
Appendix C: Communicating the Roll-Out Plan
References and Resources

Build a mathematics teaching community that promotes learning for K-12 educators and students. This user-friendly resource is divided into two parts, each covering a key team action for mathematics in a PLC at Work(TM). First you'll discover how to coach highly effective mathematics teams within your professional learning community. Then you'll learn how to utilize collaboration and lesson-design elements within your math curriculum for teacher team reflection, data analysis, and action.

Learn to lead math teacher teams and foster effective collaborative teaching strategies:

• Build a collaborative math learning culture that engages and promotes learning for students and staff members.
• Optimize coaching and foster equity and belonging to encourage collaboration.
• Engage in mathematics lesson study to help teams learn from one another and reflect on effective strategies in teaching mathematics.
• Develop norms, SMART goals for teachers, agendas, and a plan for working effectively as a collaborative team in a PLC at Work(TM).

Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Develop PLC Structures for Effective Teacher Team Engagement, Transparency, and Action
Chapter 1: Five Inspirational PLC Leadership Practices
Chapter 2: Five Leadership Strategies for Effective Collaboration in Mathematics
Part 2: Use Common Assessments and Lesson-Design Elements for Teacher Team Reflection, Data Analysis, and Subsequent Action
Chapter 3: How to Create and Nurture a Culture of Change, Growth, Reflection, and Improvement in Your Mathematics Program
Chapter 4: How to Lead a Culture of Transparency and Learning With Mathematics Assessments
Chapter 5: How to Lead in a Culture of Transparency and Learning With Mathematics Instruction
Chapter 6: How to Lead a Culture of Collective Responsibility
Epilogue
Appendix A
References and Resources

Books in the Every Student Can Learn Mathematics series:

• Mathematics Assessment and Intervention in a PLC at Work(TM)
• Mathematics Instruction and Tasks in a PLC at Work(TM)
• Mathematics Homework and Grading in a PLC at Work(TM)
• Mathematics Coaching and Collaboration in a PLC at Work(TM)

Use this resource to maintain a healthy collaborative team and stay on top of instruction:

• Review the foundational components of the professional learning communities (PLC) process, such as establishing norms, setting SMART goals, and developing common assessments.
• Improve team planning and organization.
• Utilize many reproducible forms and tools to improve collaboration and to collect and organize information.
• Recognize the positive cultural shifts that occur for teams that follow the PLC process.
• Explore additional resources to help deepen your knowledge of the work of collaborative teams.

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: PLC Fundamentals and Processes
- Cultural Shifts in a PLC
- A Simultaneously Loose and Tight Culture
- Stages of Collaboration for High-Performing Teams
- Norms
- Smart Goals
- The Continuous Improvement Cycle
- Priorities for Learning
- Systems of Intervention and Tiers of Response
Part 2: Additional Resources
- Year-at-a-Glance Guide for Site Leadership and Collaborative Teams
- Index of Protocols and Templates
Part 3: Weekly Planners
- Forty weekly planning pages (provides space for six class periods and lists weekdays across the top, Monday-Friday) with text and activities to inform, inspire, and challenge educators.
Part 4: Epilogue and References
- Epilogue
- References and Resources

Use this resource to address the unique PLC challenges of your school or district:

• Become familiar with the skills and concepts necessary to build a strong collaborative foundation for your PLC.
• Study the strategies and methods used by schools that have successfully implemented a rigorous and thorough PLC process.
• Utilize the book's concepts and skills to experiment and develop customized procedures and strategies as a collaborative team.
• Receive concrete learning targets that will help you develop your own process of PLC implementation.
• Understand how to effectively spread the message of your PLC to your school board, parents, and community stakeholders.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: "We've Met for Years, so Why Hasn't It Changed my Practice?"
Chapter 2: "If We're Collaborating, Why Aren't You?"
Chapter 3: "We're Supposed to Focus on a Few Things, but How Do We Decide What They Are?"
Chapter 4: "How Do You Find Time to Support Learning When There Are So Many Other Issues to Deal With?"
Chapter 5: "Won't We Just Move On to Something Else Next Year?"
Chapter 6: "How Do We Know If We're on the Right Track?"
Chapter 7: "What Can We Do to Help?"

Help your team identify what students need to know by the end of each unit and build student self-efficacy:

• Understand how to collaboratively plan thematic units in grades 3-5.
• Study the seven unit-planning elements and learn how to incorporate each in essential unit design.
• Review the role of the PLC at Work(R) process in enhancing collaborative student learning and teacher collaboration.
• Observe three model fraction units, one for each grade level.
• Receive tools and templates for effective unit planning.

Contents:
Introduction by Timothy D. Kanold
Part 1: Mathematics Unit Planning and Design Elements
Chapter 1: Planning for Student Learning of Mathematics in Grades 3-5
Chapter 2: Unit Planning as a Collaborative Mathematics Team
Part 2: Fraction Unit Examples, Grades 3-5
Chapter 3: Grade 3 Unit--Fraction Understanding
Chapter 4: Grade 4 Unit--Fraction Equivalence, Addition, and Subtraction
Chapter 5: Grade 5 Unit--Fraction Addition and Subtraction
Epilogue: Mathematics Team Organization
Appendix A: Create a Proficiency Map
Appendix B: Checklist and Questions for Mathematics Unit Planning
References and Resources

Use this resource to learn the vital strategies necessary for building and improving teams:

• Become familiar with the common issues that prevent CTE educators from engaging in the collaborative PLC process.
• Learn why and how the PLC process benefits both CTE educators and students.
• Learn how CTE educators can create collaborative programs that are tailored toward CTE fields of study.
• Receive professional guidance and concrete, achievable teaching strategies for creating an effective PLC process.
• Access a checklist of crucial action steps for career tech teams at the end of each chapter.