The PLC+ Activator's Guide by Dave Nagel
The PLC+ Activator's Guide offers a practical approach and real-life examples that show activators what to expect and how to navigate a successful PLC journey.
The PLC+ Activator's Guide
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The PLC+ Activator's Guide offers a practical approach and real-life examples that show activators what to expect and how to navigate a successful PLC journey.
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About Dave Nagel
Dave Nagel is an international educational consultant and researcher. His educational career started as a mid dle school science and high school biology teacher. His administrative experiences involved being a middle school assistant principal, high school associate princi pal, and director of extended day and credit recovery programs. In his former district, Dave was instrumental in implementing power standards and performance assessments. He was honored numerous times as a Senior Choice winner, with graduating seniors selecting him as someone who dramatically affected their life in a positive way.His efforts in augmenting and implementing a multifaceted credit recovery model transformed Ben Davis High School (enrollment 3,400, Grades 10-12) from a middle-of-the-road high school in terms of diplo mas awarded into a graduation factory. By focusing on differentiated goals for students based on specific proficiency measures, Ben Davis was able to improve its graduation rate 14% in just over 4 years. Dave has been a national and international presenter and consultant to schools for over 10 years. Using his experience and expertise, he has presented and helped schools, from pre-K through Grade 12, implement effective practices leading to gains in student achievement. His main focus when working with schools has revolved around assessment, instruction, leadership, and effective collaboration. He has worked specifically with schools in implementing the following topics: prioritizing standards, com mon formative assessments, building authentic performance tasks, effec tive use of scoring guides, data teams, rigorous curriculum design, and effective grading practices. In the past few years, Dave has done extensive work with teachers and leaders across the country assisting schools and entire districts through a proven process to identify essential Common Core State Standards and their relationship with state and local assessment results. Dave has also done extensive work around helping school teams work on critical aspects of effective collaboration. This has significantly impacted student achievement through focusing on intentional adult actions. Published multiple times in various publications such as Principal Leadership and Educational Leadership, Dave has also presented at various national conferences such as those hosted by the Association for Supervi sion and Curriculum Development, National Staff Development Council, National Association of Secondary School Principals, and National School Boards Association. Dave stays very busy with his beautiful and supportive wife, Kristen, and three boys (ages 10, 5, and 3). Kristen works full time and does most of the raising of the children, and he is extremely grateful for her every day. He acknowledges every day that the Lord guides his actions and is the driving force in his life. Dr. John Almarode has worked with schools, classrooms, and teachers all over the world. John began his career teaching mathematics and science in Augusta County to a wide range of students. Since then, he has presented locally, nationally, and internationally on the application of the science of learning to the classroom, school, and home environments. He has worked with hundreds of school districts and thousands of teachers. In addition to his time in PreK - 12 schools and classrooms, he is an Associate Professor and Executive Director of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education at James Madison University. At JMU, he works with pre service teachers and actively pursues his research interests including the science of learning, the design and measurement of classroom environments that promote student engagement and learning. John and his colleagues have presented their work to the United States Congress, the United States Department of Education as well as the Office of Science and Technology Policy at The White House. John has authored multiple articles, reports, book chapters, and over a dozen books on effective teaching and learning in today's schools and classrooms. However, what really sustains John and is his greatest accomplishment is his family. John lives in Waynsboro, Virginia with his wife Danielle, a fellow educator, their two children, Tessa and Jackson, and Labrador retrievers, Angel, Forest, and Bella. John can be reached at www.johnalmarode.com. Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit and an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE. He has published numerous articles on teaching and learning as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook, PLC+, Visible Learning for Literacy, Comprehension: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading, How Tutoring Works, and most recently, How Learning Works. Doug loves being an educator and hopes to share that passion with others. Nancy Frey, Ph.D., is a Professor in Educational Leadership at San Diego State and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. She is a member of the International Literacy Association's Literacy Research Panel. Her published titles include Visible Learning in Literacy, This Is Balanced Literacy, Removing Labels, and Rebound. Nancy is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California and learns from teachers and students every day. Karen T. Flories has 15 years of experience in education including special education and high school English teaching, as well as serving in the role of Literacy Director and Executive Director of Educational Services. She is currently a full time Professional Learning consultant for Corwin.
Table of Contents
Letter From the Authors About the Authors Introduction Part 1. Activating Your PLC+: Overview Activating Your PLC+ What Effective Activators Do Part 2. Activation Requires Effective Collaboration Facilitation Versus Activation Five Qualities of a Good Activator Part 3. Activating Your PLC+: Establishing Roles and Developing Team Cohesion Supporting Team Cohesion Establishing PLC+ Roles Stepping Into Roles Matched to PLC+ Team Member Strengths Part 4. Activating Your PLC+: Norms and Authentic Instructional Protocols in Your PLC+ Establishing Operating Norms Social and Emotional Check-Ins Establishing Process Norms Operating Norms Versus Process Norms Utilizing Authentic Instructional Protocols Part 5. Activating the Five Essential Questions and Four Crosscutting Values of Your PLC+ Activating Guiding Question 1: Where Are We Going? Activating Guiding Question 2: Where Are We Now? Activating Guiding Question 3: How Do We Move Learning Forward? Activating Guiding Question 4: What Did We Learn Today? Activating Guiding Question 5: Who Benefited and Who Did Not Benefit? Part 6. The Nuts and Bolts of Your PLC+ Scheduling PLC+ Meetings Setting Aside the Time for the Work of the PLC+ Overcoming Challenges: (Not Enough) Time Developing an Assessment Calendar Part 7. Activating a High-Impact and High-Functioning PLC+ High Impact Versus High Functioning Part 8. Activating Conversations Focused on Equity Closing Remarks References Index
Additional information
CIN1544384041G
9781544384047
1544384041
The PLC+ Activator's Guide by Dave Nagel
Used - Good
Hardback
SAGE Publications Inc
20200622
176
N/A
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