The Practice of Authentic PLCs: A Guide to Effective Teacher Teams

Discover the keys to building effective PLCs

Creating an authentic professional learning community requires breaking down the walls of isolation and collaborating to improve student learning, because collectively we are more than the sum of our parts. Grounded in the award-winning author’s foundational work with the Coalition of Essential Schools, this book enables educators to hit the ground running with a research-based process that includes:

• Setting the foundation for collaboration and team building
• Facilitating protocols
• Examining student and teacher work
• Implementing teacher-designed common formative assessments
• Analyzing and responding to data