The Principal as Professional Learning Community Leader / Edition 1

by Ontario Principals' Council

Overview

This resource provides principals with practical support, step-by-step plans, and hands-on strategies to lead the development of thriving professional learning communities in their schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412963145
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/17/2008
Series:	Leading Student Achievement Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Building Professional Learning Communities
Why Professional Learning Communities?
The PLC Edifice: An Analogy
Feature: Reflection and Action Template
Summary
2. The Role of Principals in Leading Professional Learning Communities
Leadership Practices of the PLC Principal
Principal/Vice Principal Learning Teams
Feature: Reflection and Action Template
Summary
3. Planning for Professional Learning Communities
Collaborative Leadership: Creating the PLC Steering Team
PLC Snapshot Assessment
Setting Up a Tracking System
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
4. Introducing Staff to Professional Learning Communities: Foundations
Laying the Foundations of a PLC
Feature: Professional Development Modules: Introducing Staff to PLCs
Guiding Questions
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
5. Supporting Learning Teams: The Pillars
Learning Teams for Improving Student Achievement
The Four Pillars
Feature: Professional Development Module: PLC Learning Teams
Guiding Questions
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
6. The Roof: Continuous Learning and Continuous Improvement
Reflection and Action
Celebration
Guiding Questions
Feature: Recording and Planning for Continuous Learning: PLC Learning Grid
Summary
The Principal's Tool Kit
Professional Development Modules
Case Studies
Reproducibles
Glossary
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

This series of publications addresses some of the most important improvement challenges facing school leaders today. The authors of the series bring a remarkable combination of deep, practical experience and academic sophistication to these challenges. The series should be required reading for all school leaders.

Ken Leithwood

This is a great series that allows school principals to integrate theory and practice themselves, resulting in highly insightful and practical strategies that will make a difference in schools. Practitioners: lead thyselves!

Michael Fullan

This series of little volumes offers a plethora of rich ideas ranging from practice and specific methods right down to easy-to-use worksheets. It provides a valuable resource for new principals who would become accomplished instructional leaders and also for seasoned principals looking to strengthen their leadership capacity.

Roland S. Barth

At last, a series of outstanding books by practicing administrators, for practicing principals. Avoiding high-flown theory on the one hand and mere lists of bullet points on the other, these books represent the best that highly expert leaders have to offer—intellectually informed ideas about how to deal with the compelling practical issues of principalship. Getting down from the ivory tower and stepping out of the principal’s office, these authors offer some of the most important and useful books about leadership that principals can buy.

Andy Hargreaves