Energize Your Teams

"A comprehensive guide for coaching collaborative teams in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work, this "grab and grow" resource is a powerful tool busy school leaders, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders can grab to grow their collaborative teams' skills. Collaborative teacher teams are the engine of a PLC. The members of these teams work in cycles of continuous improvement to ensure high levels of learning for all students. It can be a challenge to lead and coach these teams to reach their full potential. Authors Thomas W. Many, Michael J. Maffoni, Susan K. Sparks, and Tesha Ferriby Thomas and contributor Brian Greeney provide complete, easy-to-implement professional learning to deepen teams' knowledge of five prerequisites of a PLC. For the prerequisites, ranging from curriculum to assessment to intervention, the authors present strong, evidence-based strategies and instructions for getting the most out of the collaborative process so teams and PLCs can thrive"--