Help Your Team

Overcoming Common Collaborative Challenges in a PLC (Supporting Teacher Team Building and Collaboration in a Professional Learning Community)

Michael D. Bayewitz, Scott A. Cunningham, Joseph A. Ianora, Brandon Jones, Maria Nelson, Will Remmert, Bob Sonju, Jeanne Spiller

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781947604612
• eBook ISBN: 9781947604629
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

With foreword by Mike Mattos

Build a strong, highly impactful team committed to learning for all. Written by eight professional learning community (PLC) experts, this practical guide addresses the most common challenges educators face when building collaborative teams and working collaboratively. Each chapter offers a variety of templates, processes, and strategies to help your team resolve conflict, focus on the right work, and take collective responsibility for student learning.

Rely on this book to troubleshoot collaborative learning and team development in your PLC:

• Gain an understanding of the PLC framework and the unique qualities of effective collaborative work.
• Learn about collaborative teams, what goes into making them, and how to utilize them effectively to drive change and professional development for teachers and other educators.
• Become familiar with the ways in which interpersonal issues affect collaborative teams, and gain collaborative tools for conflict resolution and team building for teachers and staff.
• Learn how a toxic work culture can contribute to the failure of collaborative learning and how to combat this toxic school culture.
• Explore how educators in nontraditional schools or singletons can use the collaborative process to their advantage.

Contents:
About the Authors
Foreword by Mike Mattos
Introduction
Chapter 1: Organizing Schools Into Effective Collaborative Teams
Chapter 2: Managing Team Members Who Disengage
Chapter 3: Establishing Clarity on What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do
Chapter 4: Planning for Targeted and Effective Team Interventions
Chapter 5: Working Together in a PLC
Chapter 6: Changing to a Positive School Culture
Chapter 7: Involving Nondepartmental Members in a PLC
Chapter 8: Supporting Singleton Teachers in Collaborative Teams
Chapter 9: Dealing With Cautions, Conflicts, and Commitments
References and Resources
Index

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• About the Authors
• Foreword: The Inherent Dichotomy of Teamwork
• Introduction
• 1 Organizing Schools Into Effective Collaborative Teams
• 2 Managing Team Members Who Disengage
• 3 Establishing Clarity on What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do
• 4 Planning for Targeted and Effective Team Interventions
• 5 Working Together in a PLC
• 6 Changing to a Positive School Culture
• 7 Involving Nondepartmental Members in a PLC
• 8 Supporting Singleton Teachers in Collaborative Teams
• Epilogue: Dealing With Cautions, Conflicts, and Commitments
• References and Resources
• Index