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PLC at Work® and Your Small School: Building, Deepening, and Sustaining a Culture of Collaboration for Singletons
Small schools can have a big impact. With the guidance of author Breez Longwell Daniels, an award-winning principal in Wyoming, you will learn how to build a successful professional learning community (PLC) in your small school. The resource addresses every key aspect of a PLC at Work® system and outlines how to drive immense academic success while staying true to your school’s small-town roots.
Use this resource to implement a PLC that ensures high levels of learning for every student in your small
Learn how to define your school’s mission and vision in a way that both centers the school’s role within the community and builds a foundation for a strong PLC.Become familiar with how to develop a strong PLC school system in a small school or rural area that contains many singleton and shared teachers.Learn how to effectively collect and use data to increase the effectiveness of your PLC system.Study the research and real-world examples that support the strategies and concepts introduced in the book to help students meet their academic goals.
IntroductionChapter 1: Breaking With TraditionChapter 2: Establishing a VisionChapter 3: Structuring TimeChapter 4: Building Your CultureChapter 5: Supporting CollaborationChapter 6: Using DataChapter 7: Overcoming BarriersChapter 8: Celebrating Artifacts From Thermopolis Middle SchoolReferences and Resources
Use this resource to implement a PLC that ensures high levels of learning for every student in your small
Learn how to define your school’s mission and vision in a way that both centers the school’s role within the community and builds a foundation for a strong PLC.Become familiar with how to develop a strong PLC school system in a small school or rural area that contains many singleton and shared teachers.Learn how to effectively collect and use data to increase the effectiveness of your PLC system.Study the research and real-world examples that support the strategies and concepts introduced in the book to help students meet their academic goals.
IntroductionChapter 1: Breaking With TraditionChapter 2: Establishing a VisionChapter 3: Structuring TimeChapter 4: Building Your CultureChapter 5: Supporting CollaborationChapter 6: Using DataChapter 7: Overcoming BarriersChapter 8: Celebrating Artifacts From Thermopolis Middle SchoolReferences and Resources
280 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 7, 2020
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July 28, 2025
This book adds to a much needed body of literature about what PLC can look like in a small school. It does offer some practical solutions. However, it also offers narrow viewpoints around why teachers might leave a school in the midst of change. Toward the end, I felt it also went off the rails and either began focusing solely on high school level PLC or just giving generic advice for PLC you might find in any book, rather than one tailored to small schools. It completely missed some obstacles small schools face in doing so.
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