Collaborative Teams that Transform Schools

Author: Robert J. Marzano
Publisher: Marzano Resources
ISBN: 9781943360031
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover a practical, comprehensive model of effective professional learning communities. In this user-friendly guide, educators explore research-based steps and strategies designed to increase the effectiveness of collaborative teams and enhance PLCs. Examine how the PLC process can transform critical components of education--including curriculum, assessment, instruction, and teacher development--and use reproducible agendas, scales, and checklists to improve schoolwide practices.

The Power of Teacher Teams

Author: Vivian Troen
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412991331
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
While most educators believe working in teams is valuable, not all team efforts lead to instructional improvement. Through richly detailed case studies The Power of Teacher Teams demonstrates how schools can transform their teams into more effective learning communities that foster teacher leadership. The benefits of successful teacher teams include: improved performance for both teachers and students; meaningful professional development; group adoption of a new curriculum; shared insights into student work; better classroom management; support for new teachers; new roles for teacher leaders; and opportuniteis for mentor support.School leaders will find guidelines, methods, and concrete steps for building and sustaining effective teacher teams. Also included is a DVD with video case studies and one CD with reproducibles. The most important reason for building teacher teams is to enhance student learning through improved instruction, and that story is at the heart of this book.

Collaborative Response

Author: Kurtis Hewson
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1071862839
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
A school-wide model for addressing individual needs The greatest goal of education is to ensure equity while enhancing learning and academic success for all students. And yet, it is impossible for one teacher to meet the extensive needs of all students in his or her classroom. The traditional schooling model cannot provide for this complexity and leaves educators perplexed. The solution is a collaborative approach where “every child deserves a team” to surround them with supports that recognize their strengths and challenges. Collaborative Response offers a school-wide model for addressing students’ individual needs. The three fundamental components of the model are: collaborative structures and processes; data and evidence; and continuum of supports. In this book, readers will find: Entry points for beginning this work Potential pitfalls of the approach Case studies from schools that have adopted the model Access to a website with tools, templates, case studies, and more With a focus on quality classroom instruction, this book shares examples from schools and districts that have transformed how they respond to the needs of all learners.

Collaborative Teams That Work

Author: Colin Sloper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951075897
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Collaborative Teams That Work is the ultimate guide to excellent collaboration. To support your PLC's path forward, authors Colin Sloper and Gavin Grift outline 12 specific actions that lead to greater, more effective teamwork. Rely on this resource as you set up your collaborative teams, and then refer back to it before, during, and after meetings to maintain focus on the right work. Understand the positive effects of collaboration in education. Examine the cycle of learning and how it optimizes education for both students and teachers. Implement 12 actions to collaborate more effectively. Adapt the cycle of learning and collaborative techniques to other types of educational teams. See the big picture of collaboration and how the learning cycle fits into the educational system over many years. Contents: Preface Foreword Introduction Section 1: Preparing the Learning Action 1: Map the Learning Pathway Action 2: Prepare the Preassessment Action 3: Administer the Preassessment Action 4: Respond to Identified Student Learning Needs Action 5: Design the Learning Program Section 2: Implementing the Learning Action 6: Implement the Learning Program Action 7: Monitor the Impact of Instruction Action 8: Analyze Which Instructional Practices Are Having the Greatest Impact Action 9: Adopt the Most Impactful Instructional Practices Section 3: Reviewing the Learning Action 10: Administer the Postassessment Action 11: Determine the Team's Impact on Student Learning Action 12: Action the Team's Learnings Section 4: Adopting an Alternative Approach Preparing the Inquiry Action 1: Identify the Learning Issue Action 2: Prepare the Preassessment Action 3: Administer the Preassessment Action 4: Respond to Identified Student Learning Needs Action 5: Design Actions to Address the Learning Issue Implementing the Inquiry Action 6: Implement the Learning Actions Action 7: Monitor the Impact of Actions Action 8: Analyze Which Actions Are Having the Greatest Impact Reviewing the Learning Action 9: Administer the Postassessment Action 10: Determine the Team's Impact on Student Learning Action 11: Action the Team's Learnings Section 5: Putting It All Together Develop the Collaborative Meeting Agenda Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B References

Transforming Teamwork

Author: Diane P. Zimmerman
Publisher: Corwin
ISBN: 1544319894
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Discover how psychological safety, constructive conflict, and actionable learning create a powerful triple helix to transform teams! In this ground-breaking resource, three experts in the field of education and teamwork each present one of three strands that, when woven together, support teamwork and forge collaborative interactions into a transformative way of working. You’ll learn approaches, processes and tools to overcome common obstacles to team effectiveness such as feelings of futility, anxiety, and poor morale. Drawing on research and practical experience the authors identify strategies and tools that show how to: Build psychological safety, where teams work towards resilient interpersonal relationships Use constructive conflict as a powerful catalyst for team learning and transformation Inquire into problems of practice to transform capabilities and produce actionable learning Acquire ways to develop mindful, thoughtful, and constructive teams where authentic communication drives group awareness and clear processes and goals. Acquire ways to develop mindful, thoughtful, and constructive teams where authentic communication drives group awareness and clear processes and goals.

Professional Learning Communities at Work

Author: Richard DuFour
Publisher: Solution Tree
ISBN: 9781879639607
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Transforming School Culture

Author: Anthony Muhammad
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
ISBN: 1934009997
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures.

Transformative Collaboration

Author: Tonia Flanagan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951075996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Every school strives to better itself so that it can better its students. In Transformative Collaboration, the authors dive deep into one of the strongest strategies for school improvement--the PLC process. You will explore five collaboration-based commitments--from gaining clarity to building trust--that will ultimately help you build and sustain a PLC that provides the best possible avenues of learning to students. Use this resource to provide students with the education they deserve: Commit to collaboration and use the five commitments to transform your school Understand what it means to be a PLC Find the courage to lead the process Build a climate of trust Shape school structures for success Create clarity in collaboration Contents: Table of Contents About the Authors Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Understand What it Means to Be a PLC Chapter 2: Find the Courage You Need to Lead Chapter 3: Build a Climate of Trust Chapter 4: Shape School Structures for Success Chapter 5: Create Clarity in Collaboration Appendix: Key Terms References and Resources Index

The Adaptive School

Author: Robert J. Garmston
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442223642
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
This 3rd edition of the award winning Adaptive Schools Sourcebook provides both a theoretical and practical guide for groups and teams to develop and focus their collaborative energies to improve teaching practices and enhance student-learning outcomes. In five sections: Becoming Adaptive, Collaboration Matters, Meetings are Teachers’ Work, Resources for Inquiry, and Conflict, Change and Community, the authors draw on decades of personal experiences in schools and research from multiple disciplines to present powerful tools and useful templates for structuring the work of productive professional communities in schools. Readers will learn ways to develop and sustain the fundamental elements for enhancing social capital in schools: distinguishing between dialogue and discussion, establishing seven norms of collaboration, automating language patterns for inquiry and problem solving, facilitating groups and data teams, engaging in productive conflict, and building community. The book offers links to video clips demonstrating key skills, inventories for assessing groups, instruments for assessing personal skills, and a collection of over 150 meeting strategies and facilitator moves for engaging group members in productive interactions.

Learning by Doing

Author: Richard DuFour
Publisher: Solution Tree
ISBN: 9781949539479
Category : Educational leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 267

Book Description
In the third edition of Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work®, authors Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, and Mike Mattos provide educators with a comprehensive, bestselling guide to transforming their schools into professional learning communities (PLCs). In this revised version, contributor and Canadian educator Karen Power has adapted the third edition for Canadian educators, emphasizing how Canadian educators can effectively improve learning for each student across their unique and widely diverse provinces and territories. Rewritten so that the scenarios, research, and language appropriately meet the needs of Canadian educators, this version is packed with real-world strategies and advice that will assist readers in transforming their school or district into a successful PLC.