Help your teams get better faster. Written for busy school leaders, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders, this ultimate "grab and grow" guide details how to bridge the gap between learning and doing at every stage of the PLC journey. Rely on the book's ample professional development activities to empower teacher teams to enhance their skills, grow together, and collectively focus on what's working and what's next. ● Understand every aspect of a professional learning community and how collaborative teams and school leadership play a role in them. ● Explore the different levels of PLCs on the PLC continuum. ● Learn a proven, effective coaching cycle that will fortify your collaborative team school improvement efforts. ● Improve team collaboration regarding all aspects of your learning community, including curriculum, assessment, and intervention. ● Determine the next steps that will help you realize the true potential of your PLC. Contents: Introduction Part I: Introduction to Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC at WorkⓇ Chapter 1: Energize Your Collaborative Teams Chapter 2: A Continuum of Practice for PLCs Chapter 3: The Team Coaching Cycle Part II: Modules for Coaching Collaborative Teams Chapter 4: Highly Effective Collaborative Teams Chapter 5: Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum Chapter 6: A Balanced and Coherent System Of Assessment Chapter 7: Productive Data Conversations Chapter 8: The Pyramid of Interventions Part III: One Team's Transformation Chapter 9: Willis ISD: Practical Implications of Coaching Teams Appendix References and Resources Index

"In Energize your teams: Powerful tools for coaching collaborative teams in PLCs at Work®, authors Thomas W Many, Michael J Maffoni, Susan K Sparks and Tesha Ferriby Thomas and contributor Brian Greeney share comprehensive guidance for coaching collaborative teams in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work. They provide complete, easy-to-implement professional learning modules and supporting materials to deepen collaborative teams' knowledge of five prerequisites of a PLC: (1) highly effective collaborative teams, (2) a guaranteed and viable curriculum, (3) a balanced and coherent system of assessment, (4) productive data conversations, and (5) the pyramid of interventions. This follow-up to the authors' books Amplify your impact: Coaching collaborative teams in PLCs at Work and How schools thrive: Building a coaching culture for collaborative teams in PLCs at Work is a 'grab and grow' resource - a powerful tool busy F-12 school leaders, instructional coaches and teacher leaders can grab to grow their collaborative teams' skills. Readers will: explore effective coaching strategies and the coaching cycle; discover a continuum for teams to assess their current effectiveness; utilise step-by-step coaching instructions and supporting materials; study useful tools for coaching collaborative teams; find free online reproducibles." -- Publisher's web-site.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Afterword -- References and Resources -- Index

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

This book explains how an organization can measure and manage performance with the Balanced Scorecard methodology. It provides extensive background on performance management and the Balanced Scorecard, and focuses on guiding a team through the step-by-step development and ongoing implementation of a Balanced Scorecard system. Corporations, public sector agencies, and not for profit organizations have all reaped success from the Balanced Scorecard. This book supplies detailed implementation advice that is readily applied to any and all of these organization types. Additionally, it will benefit organizations at any stage of Balanced Scorecard development. Regardless of whether you are just contemplating a Balanced Scorecard, require assistance in linking their current Scorecard to management processes, or need a review of their past measurement efforts, Balanced Scorecard Step by Step provides detailed advice and proven solutions.

The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.

"In The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work, author William M. Ferriter provides educators with a collection of tools and resources designed to strengthen the practice of collaborative teams. Teachers working in a professional learning community (PLC) have the capacity to improve learning for every student; however, teacher teams face many challenges while striving to make a meaningful impact on learning. The tools in this book help educators combat the problems that teams encounter and provide an explicit structure for learning teams. Ferriter organizes the book around the four critical questions of PLCs, and each chapter thoroughly explores core behaviors that efficient teams require and templates for extending the work. By reading this book, educators will learn how to navigate the challenges their teams face by receiving targeted support"--