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This excerpt from PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design emphasizes that the heartbeat of a PLC+ rests in the quality time members invest in one another engaged in inquiry of their practices, which may be accomplished through such practices as Learning Walks.

Even goals that technically meet the SMART criteria—specific, measurable, attainable, results-driven, and time-bound—don't always advance student learning.  Skillful team leaders align goals to priorities and ensure people have a heartfelt commitment to reaching them.  

In this excerpt from PLC+, the authors discuss their hope for the PLC+ model and what they see as the future of PLCs.  

In this excerpt from PLC+, the authors discuss factors that can contribute to an individual teacher’s success, including credibility and efficacy, and how, through PLCs, these strengths can become collective to benefit the school as a whole.

This excerpt from The PLC+ Activator's Guide by Dave Nagel, John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Karen Flories addresses some of the challenges that come from working with the dynamics of a PLC+ team.

Explore moves skillful team leaders (STLs) can employ to manage conflict in this excerpt from Intentional Moves. 

"Being a peer leader poses unique challenges, but also offers unexpected advantages. In the following pages, I explore five understandings that skillful team leaders (STLs) have about peer leadership." - Intentional Moves.

In the first chapter of Intentional Moves, explore the four key tenets of a skillful approach, the 10 skillful team leader (STL) primary intentions, the STLs highligheted in the book, how the book is structured, and more. 

This excerpt from Leading Powerful Professional Learning guides the reader through navigating perceptions of risk, including why it matters, how to do it, key challenges, what to notice, and vignettes. 

Use this interview template from Power Up Blended Learning to lead you through the initial conversation between coach and teacher and create the foundation of respect and understanding that is essential to the longterm success of this partnership.

Try using this Word Cloud Activity from Power Up Blended Learning with small groups of teachers to explore their values, find commonalities, and start a conversation around teaching according to those values.

In this excerpt from The Teacher Credibility and Collective Efficacy Playbook, the authors discuss how to cultivate trust with your students and how to use that trust as the basis for a positive teacher-student relationship.