Leading by Design: An Action Framework for PLC at Work Leaders

By focusing on what students learn rather than what they are taught, schools can redefine their mission and begin the transition to a professional learning community. After interviewing and observing principals, administrators, and teachers, the authors identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share, along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success.

Benefits:

• Examine the seven leadership practices of highly effective PLC leaders.
• Build a clear and effective leadership framework.
• Gain insight from teachers, principals, and administrators.
• Face the challenges of unhealthy and unproductive collaborative teams.
• Pinpoint the specific strengths and strategies of successful leaders and teams.
• Learn not only how to develop your own leadership, but also how to promote a culture of leadership.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Leading to Learn and Learning to Lead
Chapter 2: Creating and Sustaining Collaborative Relationships
Chapter 3: Aligning Systems
Chapter 4: Facilitating Shared Responsibility
Chapter 5: Building Coherence and Clarity
Chapter 6: Modeling Practices and Expectations
Chapter 7: Reflecting on Leadership Effectiveness of Self and Others
Chapter 8: Developing Leadership Capacity in Self and Others
Epilogue