Amplify Your Impact: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs (Instructional Leadership Development and Coaching Methods for Collaborative Learning)

by Thomas W. Many, Michael J. Maffoni, Susan K. Sparks

Amplify Your Impact presents K-12 educators and school leadership with a framework for improving collaboration and teambuilding for teachers in their PLCs. The authors share best practices and processes teams can rely on to ensure they are doing the right work in a cycle of continuous improvement. Discover concrete action steps your school can take to adopt proven collaborative coaching methods, fortify teacher teams, and ultimately improve student learning in classrooms.

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Gain insights from teachers and empirical evidence from schools that confirm the benefits of how coaching and refining collaborative teams can strengthen PLCs. Use the Pathways Tool for Coaching Collaborative Teams to guide your team's conversations and team-based learning. Learn how to develop and use the strategy implementation guide (SIG) to map out your collaborative team success. Analyze coaching scenarios that illustrate how to turn ineffective team meetings into positive collaborative learning experiences. Increase instructional leadership development that promotes reflective coaching and a collaborative approach.

Introduction

Part The Why, How, and What of Coaching Collaborative Teams
Chapter 1: Combining Coaching and Collaboration
Chapter 2: Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC

Part The Framework for Coaching Collaborative Teams
Chapter 3: Amplifying Your Impact With Clarity
Chapter 4: Amplifying Your Impact With Feedback
Chapter 5: Amplifying Your Impact With Support

Part Putting It All Together to Amplify Your Impact
Chapter 6: Making it Coaching Scenarios


Afterword
References and Resources
Index

Genres: Education, Leadership, Teaching

242 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 31, 2018

Reviews

[Ted · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Many and his colleagues did a great job with this book. The authors offer an organized, well-designed guide on coaching PLC teams. The content is so rich with proven strategies on how to grow PLC teams in your school. The Pathway tools chapter 5 focuses on are worth the price of the book. I am excited to incorporate these tools into our PLC collaboration. I need to spend more time with chapter 3 and dig deeper into the SIG (strategy implementation guide). This book is a great resource for instructional coaches and principals and will not be a "read it once and put it on the shelf" addition to my professional library.

[Taylor Potter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really great book with practical and real world applications to better the PLC process and coaching culture in school.
So many good diagrams, ways to start conversations, and structure teams. Good ideas for singular PLCs as well.
WILL BE REFERRING BACK TO!!

[Dave Moyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great review of key PLC concepts with extensions and practical suggestions that will help schools and districts move the system by strengthening teams through effective coaching and supervision.

[Shantana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful diagrams and scenarios