In
order to build professional learning communities, school leaders must
establish and nurture the conditions necessary to support their
development. Nuts and Bolts of Building Professional Learning Communities will
help participants understand and utilize the structural as well as
social and human resource conditions needed to build strong and powerful
professional learning communities. Specific attention will be devoted to finding time for collaboration and
building social conditions to support a community of practice.
View the "Nuts and Bolts of PLCs" Webinar Recordings with Al Bertani
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Session 1: Developing the Structural Condition Necessary to Build PLCs
•Structural Conditions: The Five Basics
•Finding Time for Teams
•Redefining, Revisiting, and Reallocating Strategies for Changing Structural Conditions
Resources:
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Click the titles to download the supporting documents
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*Building Professional Learning Communities in Schools;
Kruse, Seashore-Louis, and Bryk; Center on Organization and
Restructuring of Schools; University of Wisconsin - Madison; Spring 1994
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*Finding Time for Teams; Johnston, Knight, and Miller; Journal of Staff Development – National Staff Development Council; Spring 2007
Session 2: Strengthening the Social and Human Conditions Needed Build PLCs
Resources:
Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation
Click the titles to download the supporting documents
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*Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for School Reform , Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider, ASCD March 2003 | Volume 60 | Number 6, Creating Caring Schools pp 40-45
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*A Learning Community is Built on Trust , Valerie Von Frank, The Learning Principal
National Staff Development Council, Volume 4, No. 7, April 2009
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*Trust Factors, Teachers Teaching Teachers, National Staff Development Council, October 2009
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