Singletons in a PLC at Work®: Navigating On-Ramps to Meaningful Collaboration (Practical strategies for eliminating teacher isolation to improve collaborative teams)

In a professional learning community, isolation is the enemy of school improvement. But what does collaboration among teachers look like when you can’t easily identify with a team? This book will help singleton teachers first develop clarity on learning essentials, then find creative entry points to form collaborative teams. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors offer practical solutions for eliminating the practice of isolation for all educators. Collaborative teams will:Understand what meaningful collaboration is and how singletons can utilize the PLC processBuild the groundwork for meaningful collaboration using strategies for your specific situationImplement meaningful collaboration as a singleton across separate schools or within the same schoolAlign disparate singletons under the same unifying PLC process Contents: Chapter 1: Meaningful Collaboration Chapter 2: Singleton On-Ramps for Collaboration Chapter 3: Preparation for Meaningful Collaboration Chapter 4: Course-Alike Entry Point―The Virtual Team Chapter 5: Common-Content Entry Point Chapter 6: Critical-Friend Entry Point Chapter 7: Putting It All Together Afterword: Final Thoughts References and Resources Read more