Teacher Teams That Get Results
61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities
- Gayle H. Gregory - Educational Consultant, Burlington, Ontario
- Lin Kuzmich - Educational Consultant, KCS, Inc., Loveland, CO
"Ready-to-use templates and clear instructions make this material user-friendly and clear. Especially helpful is the cross-reference matrix showing how a strategy can be used in more than one area."
—William Osman, President
New Jersey Staff Development Council
"An excellent introduction integrates the five 'theaters of the mind' in a brief and coherent way."
—Christelle Estrada, Director of Professional Development Services
Salt Lake City School District, UT
A comprehensive set of tools for achieving lasting results and sustaining a professional learning community!
Sustaining results-oriented team efforts is hard work, and achieving diversified solutions to complex issues over time requires commitment and creativity. To support the momentum of learning communities, Teacher Teams That Get Results: 61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities provides an illustrated collection of ready-to-use tools and examples of plans in action for results-oriented faculty and staff.
Focusing on the where, what, why, how, and when to use each of the 61 strategies, best-selling authors Gayle H. Gregory and Lin Kuzmich offer the tools your team needs to succeed. You will learn to:
- Create and sustain a growth-oriented climate that encourages feedback and builds trust
- Share knowledge and skills to expand and optimize results
- Build resilience, develop creative solutions, and manage change
- Determine priorities and create excellence when goal setting, tying data to practice, and analyzing results
An indispensable guide for teachers, teacher leaders, and school administrators, this handbook is ideal for school and district staff serving as meeting and workshop leaders and facilitators.
| Purpose for This Book |
| What We Know About Adult Learning |
| Brain Bits |
| Adult Learning Principles |
| Learning Styles |
| What Different Learners Need |
| Initial Group Development |
| Phases of Group Development and Behaviors |
| Benefit of Professional Learning Communities |
| Getting the Intended Results |
| Learning Teams That Get Results |
| Tools to Succeed as Teams |
| In This Book |
| Strategy 1. ABC Conversations |
| Strategy 2: Birthday Month |
| Strategy 3: Community Circle |
| Strategy 4: Concept Formation |
| Strategy 5: Consultation Line |
| Strategy 6: Find Someone Who |
| Strategy 7: Four Corners |
| Strategy 8: Give and Go |
| Strategy 9: Mapping the Journey |
| Strategy 10: 3-2-1 |
| Strategy 11: Nominal Group Process |
| Strategy 12: Personal, Interpersonal, Task Model (P.I.T.) |
| Strategy 13: Processing Pause |
| Strategy 14: Random Partners |
| Strategy 15:Synectics |
| Strategy 16:T Chart and Y Chart |
| Strategy 17: DIP Party |
| Strategy 18: Four Corner Cards |
| Strategy 19: Inside Outside Circle |
| Strategy 20: Jigsaw |
| Strategy 21: Know, Want to Know, Learned (KWL) |
| Strategy 22: Perspective Lens |
| Strategy 23: Pluses and Wishes |
| Strategy 24: Plus, Minus, Interesting |
| Strategy 25: Promissory Note |
| Strategy 26: Right Angle |
| Strategy 27: Round Robin, Round Table |
| Strategy 28: Round the Room Brainstorming |
| Strategy 29: Star Gazing |
| Strategy 30: Think, Pair, Share |
| Strategy 31: Wallpaper Poster |
| Strategy 32: Checking the Oil |
| Strategy 33: Communication Matters |
| Strategy 34: Doubling Up |
| Strategy 35: Environmental Scanning |
| Strategy 36: Field Force |
| Strategy 37: FLOW |
| Strategy 38: Gallery Walk |
| Strategy 39: Graffiti |
| Strategy 40: Hot Buttons |
| Strategy 41: Journey Mapping (Also Known as Histo-Mapping) |
| Strategy 42: Musical Chairs |
| Strategy 43: Parking Lot |
| Strategy 44: Roadblock Removal |
| Strategy 45: The Question Matters: Reviewing Student Work |
| Strategy 46: Two Sides of the Story |
| Strategy 47: Building on Success |
| Strategy 48: Cause and Effect Planning |
| Strategy 49: Celebrations and Next Steps |
| Strategy 50: Current Snapshot |
| Strategy 51: Four Squares for Creativity |
| Strategy 52: Lesson and Unit Studies |
| Strategy 53: Prioritizing the Impact of Solutions |
| Strategy 54: Prioritizing Work and Learning |
| Strategy 55: Probable and Preferred Future |
| Strategy 56: Pros and Cons |
| Strategy 57: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats |
| Strategy 58: The Interview |
| Strategy 59: The People Ladder |
| Strategy 60: Think Abouts… |
| Strategy 61: Data Chats |
| Part One: Initial Group Development |
| Part Two: Sustaining Groups Over Time and Through New Initiatives |
| Putting It All Together: Examples for Implementation |
| Keeping Notes, Logging, and Our Methods |
| Keeping Your School, Team Culture, and Climate Healthy |
| Summary |
"I enjoyed reading Teacher Teams That Get Results and anticipate using some of the activities with groups that I facilitate."
"Excellent introduction integrates the 5 'theaters of the mind' in a brief and coherent way. I have not seen this done as well in other educational books."
"Ready-to-use templates and clear instructions make this material user-friendly. Provides respected sources and a range of examples and applications. Especially helpful is the cross-reference matrix showing how a strategy can be used in more than one area."
"Provides flexible and relevant strategies that educational leaders can use to create a structure for meaningful conversations and moving forward in the sometimes messy business of learning communities. This book provides the nuts and bolts of getting to the big picture—something that's been needed for a while. My colleagues and I will find this guide useful in our quest to improve student learning."
"This fits so well with work we are presently doing, and I am so pleased to see the brain research and practical strategies reflected everywhere! The authors' approach to teacher teams has been at the heart of the work I’ve been doing for the past 8 years with schools and leadership teams."
"A remarkable volume by two authors who understand what a collaborative school is and how to make it work. This is a must-purchase. It is a book to use and use and use, and it is a solution to administrators who dream of a collaborative culture replacing a political, warring, and insular climate."
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