About the Authors
What Is the Role of the Principal?
The Underlying Assumptions of This Book
What Is a Professional Learning Community?
1 Getting Started
Build Shared Knowledge With Staff by Learning Together
Build the Foundation of a Professional Learning Community
Establish the Fundamental Purpose of the School
Help Staff Members Clarify the School They Are Attempting to Create
Clarify the Commitments That Are Vital to Creating the School
Establish Indicators of Progress and Strategies for Monitoring Those Indicators
Develop a Critical Mass to Support Implementation and Begin Taking Action
2 Creating the Structures for Collaboration
Organize People Into Meaningful Teams Focused on Learning
Does Your School Structure Foster Collaboration or Isolation?
Provide Teams With Time to Collaborate
Ensure Campus Layout Supports Ongoing Collaboration and Shared Responsibility for Student Learning
3 Transforming Groups Into High-Performing Teams
Engage Teams in Identifying Collective Commitments to Guide Collaboration
Engage Teams in Working Collaboratively to Achieve SMART Goals
Comprehensive School Improvement Plan
4 Focusing on the Right Work
Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
Monitoring Student Learning Through Common Formative Assessments
Bringing New Members Into the Professional Learning Community Culture
Providing the Collaborative Team With a Role in the Selection Process
Supporting New Members
5 Demonstrating Reciprocal Accountability in a Professional Learning Community
What Gets Monitored Gets Done
Reciprocal Accountability
Team Leaders
Hope Is Not a Strategy
6 Establishing a Focus on Results
A Results Orientation
Data Analysis Protocol
A Change in Adult Practice
Teacher Supervision and Evaluation in a Professional Learning Community
7 Responding When Students Don’t Learn
Effective Intervention Ensures Students Receive Additional Time and Support for Learning
Effective Intervention Is Timely
Effective Intervention Is Directive Rather Than Invitational
Effective Intervention Is Specific and Precise Regarding the Needs of an Individual Student
Effective Intervention Provides Students Access to Staff Most Effective in Providing Help
Effective Intervention Is Fluid and Flexible
Effective Intervention Is Systematic
The Biggest Obstacle to Powerful Intervention and Enrichment
8 Communicating Purpose and Priorities
Getting Tight About the Right Things
Communicating What Is Tight
Being a Leader Who Is Willing to Confront
Giving the Gift of Coherence
9 Sustaining School Improvement
Plan for Short-Term Wins
Persevere
Build the Leadership Capacity of People Throughout the School
10 Fostering Collective Efficacy
Collective Efficacy
Conclusion
References
Index
Reproducibles
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