Aligning School Districts as PLCs

In order for a professional learning community to achieve its full potential, all levels districtwide need to align around the three big ideas of a PLC: ensuring a focus on learning, building a collaborative culture, and establishing a results orientation. For each of these big ideas, there are certain nonnegotiables—policies, plans, and procedures—around which there must be common agreement and common expectations.

This book breaks down the complex process of aligning across districts into a highly systematic and detailed method. Aligning School Districts as PLCs focuses primarily on how the strategic (superintendents and boards of education), tactical (principals and school administration), and operational (teachers) roles in a district can align around the nonnegotiables. When these roles function in mutually supportive and connected ways, a PLC will reach its full potential.