Teacher Teams That Get Results: 61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities

Successful professional learning communities achieve their positive results through team efforts, and each strategy in this illustrated collection of team and group process skills offers readers ready-to-use tools for success. Best-selling authors Gayle Gregory and Lin Kuzmich focus on the where, what, why, how, and when to use each strategy in order to deepen understanding, solve real problems, plan steps for transfer, develop complex solutions, and sustain positive results and successes. These skills and strategies can be used by teachers, teacher leaders, school administrators whenever faculty or staff need a boost toward new and creative solutions aimed at achieving results. With tools supporting the quality of staff dialogue and student learning, this resource is perfect for staff meetings, professional development workshops, and parent advisory meetings. It also can be used by school and district staff to train trainers and facilitate workshops. Sustaining results-oriented team efforts is hard work. This one stop shopping guide gives educators a collection of tools, graphic organizers, and examples of strategies in action, all to support the momentum and success of their team efforts and learning communities. (From the Publisher)