Reboot, Refine, & Reinvigorate Your PLCs

Foster collaboration, drive continuous learning, and create a dynamic learning environment.

PLCs don’t work when they…

Don’t have psychological safety

Don’t have high expectations

Build a Collaborative PLC Culture

It’s true among students and it’s true among adults - people do not necessarily know how to collaborate. It is a skill and it can be learned.

In this workshop, you will learn how to lead, communicate, and provide feedback in ways that foster collaboration, equity, and results among your PLC members.

Facilitative Leadership

In this workshop, you will learn and practice the skills and strategies of facilitative leadership, a mindset and approach that empowers PLCs to achieve their goals and overcome their challenges. You will discover how to:

Recapture the purpose of the PLC by revisiting the essential elements and benefits of collaborative learning, and identifying the common pitfalls and barriers that prevent PLCs from reaching their full potential.

Develop a facilitative leadership mindset by understanding the principles of adult learning, and how to design and deliver learner-focused professional development that engages and motivates your PLC members.

Communicate for equity, understanding, and results by using inclusive discussion models, effective question techniques, and structured protocols to facilitate productive and respectful conversations among your PLC members, and drive decisions and consensus with your teams.

Provide facilitative feedback methods by learning the difference between evaluation, advice, and feedback, and how to use various models and tools to give and receive constructive and actionable feedback that supports learning and improvement.

  • "The 7 steps of adult learning theory made me reflect and think through what has been missing in many of the PD offerings I’ve delivered." Elementary Instructional Coach

    Laurie Payton

  • "This was a very meaningful practice, especially as a new coach. Lots of takeaways and I will be able to practice and apply immediately." HS Instructional Coach HS Instructional Coach

    Jamie Kokot

  • "This is unlike any theory-to-practice workshop I have been to before. Our team has agreed to implement a shared vision of practice based on the skills we now have."

    Ashley A. District Leadership Lead

  • “Execution of leadership has never been so clear to me. I always understood the idea of instructional leadership, but this showed me how to implement systems to carry it out.

    Dave C. High School Principal

Sample Offerings

Module 1

Facilitative Leadership Mindset

  • Leading the adult learner; Principles of andragogy; Facilitation vs teaching vs management; Learner-focused PD; Adult cycle of learning

  • Designing an adult learning experience.

Module 2

Communication for Equity, Understanding, and Results

  • Inclusive discussion models; Leading team meetings; Meeting structure models.

  • Question models - How do you know when you’re asking the right questions?

  • Tuning Protocol and other similar models specific to discussing classroom work.

  • Driving decisions and consensus with teams; Why is decision making in schools hard?

  • Drama Triangle: Knowing our role, using EI to recognize people in the triangle; response techniques.

Module 3

Facilitative Feedback Methods

  • Evaluation vs advice vs feedback - Why facilitative feedback is ideal

  • Feedback like an athletic coach; FACTS; Using Drama Triangle to give feedback; Meta coaching exercise.

  • Power of peer-to-peer leadership

Contact us to schedule a training.