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50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+

30+ videos including "strategies in action"

July 2025 | 240 pages | Corwin
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50 Strategies for Activating the Full Potential of Your PLC+ Team

Are you maximizing the impact of your professional learning communities? 50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+ equips educators with the tools and actions needed to foster highly effective PLC+ teams.

Successful PLCs are built on a foundation of strong collaboration, unified purpose, trust, and effective communication. The 50+ strategies in this essential guide address the challenges and possibilities within teacher teams by focusing on the role of activators, group members who work to ensure that all members of the PLC+ contribute to meaningful, solution-driven progress.

Grounded in experience and practical guidance, this resource is designed to make every step of your PLC+ experience impactful. With strategies organized into eight comprehensive sections, the authors provide the frameworks necessary to create an engaged, productive learning culture with:

  • Eight categories of strategies aligned with the five guiding PLC+ questions to support targeted and actionable leadership
  • A practical cross-reference table connecting the strategies to content with additional context and insights to deepen understanding
  • Tools for developing activator skills that enhance facilitation, decision-making, and solution-oriented collaboration within your PLC+ teams
  • Concrete protocols and frameworks for addressing team dynamics, meeting structures, and continuous improvement

From establishing goals to reviewing results, you'll find purposeful actions that drive positive outcomes for educators and students alike. Take the next step in your PLC+ leadership to shape the future of learning in your school.

 
Strategy and Usage Overview
 
Introduction
The Development of Professional Learning Communities

 
Stepping Into the Activator Role

 
Activators Make Things Happen

 
An Overview of This Guide

 
Your Activation Goal

 
Your Introduction to PLC+ Content Cross-Reference Table

 
 
50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+
 
Activating Questions 1–5
1. Activating Question 1: Where are we going?

 
2. Activating Question 2: Where are we now?

 
3. Activating Question 3: How do we move learning forward?

 
4. Activating Question 4: What did we learn today?

 
5. Activating Question 5: Who benefited and who did not benefit?

 
 
Activator Skills and Abilities
6. Activator Skills and Abilities: Activating to Achieve a True Impact on Learning

 
7. Activator Skills and Abilities: Assessing Your Activator Fitness Level

 
8. Activator Skills and Abilities: Defining Your Activator Role

 
9. Activator Skills and Abilities: Developing Successful PLC+ Activators

 
10. Activator Skills and Abilities: Facilitation Self-Assessment

 
11. Activator Skills and Abilities: Facilitating With Grace

 
12. Activator Skills and Abilities: Finding the Key Activator

 
 
Continuous Improvement
13. Continuous Improvement: Discussions and Actions

 
14. Continuous Improvement: Making Course Corrections

 
15. Continuous Improvement: Taking Priority Practices to Scale

 
16. Continuous Improvement: Strong Team Structures to Achieve High Function

 
 
Function and Impact
17. Function and Impact: Activating Others by Sharing Your PLC+ Success

 
18. Function and Impact: Applying Evaluative Thinking

 
19. Function and Impact: Assessing PLC+ Readiness

 
20. Function and Impact: Assessing Your Current PLC+ Performance

 
21. Function and Impact: Building Momentum With Early Wins

 
22. Function and Impact: Evaluating Your PLC+ Progress and Impact

 
23. Function and Impact: Increasing Impact in PLC+ Teams

 
24. Function and Impact: Realizing the Optimal Combination of Function and Impact

 
 
Meeting Moves
25. Meeting Moves: Coming to Agreement About Professional Learning

 
26. Meeting Moves: Documentation and Note-Taking

 
27. Meeting Moves: Effectively Activating When Meetings Become Challenging

 
28. Meeting Moves: Establishing Norms

 
29. Meeting Moves: Establishing PLC+ Roles

 
30. Meeting Moves: Finding Solid Ground in Assessments and Data

 
31. Meeting Moves: Social Emotional Check-Ins

 
32. Meeting Moves: Utilizing Authentic Instructional Protocols

 
 
Norms of Collaborative Work
33. Norms of Collaborative Work 1: Pausing

 
34. Norms of Collaborative Work 2: Paraphrasing

 
35. Norms of Collaborative Work 3: Posing Questions

 
36. Norms of Collaborative Work 4: Providing Data

 
37. Norms of Collaborative Work 5: Putting Ideas on the Table

 
38. Norms of Collaborative Work 6: Paying Attention to Self and Others

 
39. Norms of Collaborative Work 7: Presuming Positive Intentions

 
 
Team Dynamics
40. Team Dynamics: Achieving Team Psychological Safety

 
41. Team Dynamics: Activating Dialogue When Topics Become Sensitive

 
42. Team Dynamics: Activating When Team Members Do Not Want to Change

 
43. Team Dynamics: Analyzing and Describing Team Strengths

 
44. Team Dynamics: Breaking Barriers, Bringing Team Members Together

 
45. Team Dynamics: Countering Resistance With Will, Skill, Knowledge, Capacity, and Emotional Support

 
46. Team Dynamics: From Independent to an Interdependent PLC+

 
 
Time Matters
47. Time Matters: Developing an Assessment Calendar

 
48. Time Matters: Scheduling PLC+ Meetings

 
49. Time Matters: Setting Aside Time for the PLC+

 
 
Reflecting on Your Activation of the PLC+ Journey
50. Metareflection and Intention Setting With the 5Ds

 
 
References
 
Index

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