Make It Happen: Coaching With the Four Critical Questions of PLCs at Work®

by Kim Bailey, Chris Jakicic

Ensure every educator is engaged in the right work with a collective focus on improved student learning. Aligned to the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work® model, this resource includes instructional coaching tools, processes, protocols, templates, tips, and strategies designed to support the multidimensional work of instructional coaches and PLC training. Each chapter includes action steps and reflective coaching activities, as well as suggestions for navigating some of the most common issues instructional coaches face.

Use this book to understand the unique requirements of instructional coaches in building a school that answers the four critical questions of a PLC at Work:

Learn how to provide PLC training and professional development for collaborative teacher teams.
Study three major variables that will affect instructional coaching (capacity, culture, and context) and four major actions that will act as guiding principles.
Explore issues that can arise in PLC schools, as well as teacher coaching strategies to help resolve these issues.
Deepen your understanding of instructional coaching in a PLC with helpful online reproducibles and teacher coaching tools.
Acquire capacity-building strategies aligned to the four PLC questions.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: How to Get Started as an Instructional Coach

Chapter 2: What Do We Want Students to Know and Be Able to Do?

Chapter 3: How Will We Know if They Have Learned It?

Chapter 4: How Will We Respond When Some Students Do Not Learn?

Chapter 5: How Will We Extend the Learning of Students Who Are Already Proficient?

Epilogue: Maintaining the Momentum and Sustaining the Process

References and Resources

Index

Genres: School

447 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 7, 2018

Reviews

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book that lays out a solid plan for school improvement around PLCs, but man was it tough to get through at points. My specific issue is that our school doesn’t really lend itself to the proposed structure here and trying to figure out how we could make it work was taxing. The book does a little to suggest alternative team structures, but I was still left feeling like this is a great plan we can’t possibly implement. That’s frustrating. There is still plenty that we can take from this book, but the authors make it clear that partial implementation is basically doomed to failure.

[Nicole Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!