Creating A Coaching Culture For Professional Learning Communities

Build a collaborative coaching culture that ensures all adults learn through activities that keep the team focused on student learning. This practical resource provides activities designed to meet a wide variety of needs so you can choose the ones that fit your leadership style, the learning styles of team members, and the particular needs of the school.

"In Thrive: Building a Coaching Culture for Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work authors Thomas W. Many, Michael J. Maffoni, Susan K. Sparks, and Tesha Ferriby Thomas apply the best thinking in the profession to the process of building a highly effective coaching culture for collaborative teams in Professional Learning Communities at Work (PLCs). This follow up to the authors' earlier book Amplify Your Impact: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work uses the team coaching structure they advocate to explore how coaches can build a coaching culture in PLCs to address adaptive challenges, providing the concrete ideas and strategies necessary for coaching teams toward effective and deeper implementation of the PLC process. Leaders and coaches will learn effective coaching strategies for essential PLC elements, as well as how readers can use the Strategy Implementation Guide (SIG) and Pathways for Coaching Collaborative Teams to develop and fully realize those elements. Through this book, coaches and leaders will learn the theory and strategies necessary to coach teams toward a fully realized implementation of the PLC process"--

This book provides ideas and coaching strategies for improving your team's professional practice around the essential elements of the PLC at Work® process. It drills into the more complex aspects of PLC at Work®, including continuous improvement, collective inquiry, action orientation, and a focus on results.

If you are looking for an organic approach to purpose-driven professional learning, this is the book for you. Award-winning educator Lois Brown Easton's latest work provides a compelling case study in narrative form, a chronological PLC planning outline, and first-hand "lessons learned" about how PLCs develop, mature, and sustain themselves. You will not receive a PLC "prescription," but you will find inspiration, wisdom, discussion questions, and a companion CD.

This book expands on the framework established in the original volume of Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching. It provides many examples that can be incorporated into any educational environment. It outlines the why, who, what, and how of a sound coaching program. The new edition adds sections on the impact of learning styles on coaching, extends the connections between coaching, mentoring, and supervision, and includes instructional coaching. It contains updated examples of various coaching models in place, including international examples.

"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.

A comprehensive, multi-perspective approach to coaching culture provides models, methods, and tools to consider the building of coaching cultures Includes both grounding theory and application to a variety of contexts.

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.