Propel Your PLC at Work(r)

"You're new to professional learning communities. Or maybe you've been steeped in doing the right work for years and are well versed in working collaboratively for all students' higher learning. Perhaps you're a new hire at a school that functions as a PLC? Or, perhaps you're a principal or instructional coach who is interested in deepening your teams' understanding and commitment to this work. How can you get them there? Yourself there? Making sure you and your teams have the deepest understanding of the work possible is what Rob J. Meyer's Propel Your PLC at Work: Leadership and Coaching Activities for Enriching the Process does. This study of PLC elements is built on the fourth edition of DuFour and colleagues' foundational text Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work. Educational and professional learning leaders of K-12 districts, buildings, and teams find support through a series of three activities per elements. Facilitators receive step-by-step instructions, handouts, and keys that they can use as is or modify to fit their participants' needs. Professional learning leaders guide participants through scenarios, applications, and skills practice in a purposefully short amount of time, propelling the PLC work teachers do daily on teams"--