The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a PLC at Work® (An explicitly structured guide for team learning and implementing collaborative PLC strategies)

Build your team's capacity to become agents of positive change. Organized around the four critical questions of PLC at Work®, this comprehensive book of field-tested, easy-to-use tools provides an explicit structure for collaborative teams. Rely on these resources and best practices to help you establish team norms, navigate common challenges, develop collective teacher efficacy, and more.Use this resource to monitor the quality of your team s work: Discover how to address the many challenges teams face, and develop the skills necessary to improve student learning.Understand how to build a solid foundation for your collaborative efforts.Study strategies for effectively developing a guaranteed and viable curriculum, common formative assessments, and remediation and extension opportunities.Obtain targeted support and tools that you can use immediately to strengthen the work of your collaborative team.Explore the core behaviors that are essential to collaborative success.Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: Strengthening the Collegial Practices of Learning Teams Chapter 2: What Do We Want Students to Learn? Chapter 3: How Will We Know Students Are Learning? Chapter 4: How Will We Respond When Some Students Don't Learn? Chapter 5: How Will We Extend the Learning for Students Who Are Already Proficient? References Index Read more