With Foreword by Rebecca DuFour Amplify Your Impact presents K-12 educators and school leadership with a collaborative approach to coaching teachers in their PLCs. The authors share best practices and processes teams can rely on to ensure they are doing the right work in a cycle of continuous improvement. Discover concrete action steps your school can take to adopt proven collaborative coaching methods, fortify teacher teams, support leadership development, and ultimately improve student learning in classrooms. Adopt a collaborative team-teaching approach to coaching and leadership development: Gain insights from teachers and empirical evidence from schools that confirm the benefits of how coaching and refining collaborative teams can strengthen PLCs. Use the Pathways Tool for Coaching Collaborative Teams to guide your team's conversations and team-based learning. Learn how to develop and use the strategy implementation guide (SIG) to map out your collaborative team success. Analyze coaching scenarios that illustrate how to turn ineffective team meetings into positive collaborative learning experiences. Increase instructional leadership development that promotes reflective coaching and a collaborative approach. Contents: Introduction Part I: The Why, How, and What of Coaching Collaborative Teams Chapter 1: Combining Coaching and Collaboration Chapter 2: Coaching Collaborative Teams in a PLC Part II: The Framework for Coaching Collaborative Teams Chapter 3: Amplifying Your Impact With Clarity Chapter 4: Amplifying Your Impact With Feedback Chapter 5: Amplifying Your Impact With Support Part III: Putting It All Together to Amplify Your Impact Chapter 6: Making it Real: Coaching Scenarios Afterword References and Resources Index

Discover high-impact leadership strategies for a thriving learning community! This compelling new book provides straightforward guidance and solutions for educators working to transform their school environments. Concrete examples of practical, high-impact, and evidence-based practices help you leverage the "big ideas" of Professional Learning Communities to promote lasting improvement in your school. You'll learn to: Understand the essential role principals and teacher leaders play in leading PLCs Foster an understanding of how PLCs can support implementation of major instructional shifts such as the new Common Core State Standards Apply high-leverage strategies across your own school and district to improve instruction