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PLC Resources for Instructional Coaches: forms, templates, agendas, and more
Review data and make an action plan with your PLCs with these simple tools! Whether you’re working on data for the first time or you already have your PLC systems in place, these PLC forms will help you create norms for looking at data together, collect and track your data, and make a plan for next steps!
PDF | 11 pages
Instructional coaches always need input from teachers! Whether that’s feedback on a professional development session, ideas for goals for coaching cycles, input on the impact of coaching work, reflecting on school systems, or anything else, this resource will help you get the information you need to reflect and make a plan.
Zip File | 28 + 19 Google Forms
Teachers face so many challenges. Instructional coaches can leverage your PLCs to problem solve together! Identify a challenge or issue many teachers are facing. Then come together to figure out things that can be done in the classroom, the PLC team, and the school system to make change happen.
PDF | 6 pages
Trying to get teachers to talk during PLC and Professional Development? These discussion dice will do the trick! Each dice has six thought-provoking sentence starters for teachers to use to respond to learning, data, observations, reflections, and other teacher discussions! Perfect for instructional coaches or administrators.
PDF | 28 pages
Get your teachers talking and break the ice with these fun Would You Rather slides! 51 different slides with bright clipart engage teachers in learning about each other. Use during virtual meetings for distance learning or use in-person for PLCs, professional development, or faculty meetings!
ZIP File | 51 pages
Build assessments with your PLCs with these simple tools! Whether you’re working on common formative assessments, end of year assessments, or trying to get teachers to create different types of tests and checks for student learning, this resource will help you!
PDF | 7 pages
Teachers face so many challenges. Leverage your PLCs to problem solve together! Identify a challenge or issue many teachers are facing. Then come together to figure out things that can be done in the classroom, the PLC team, and the school system to make change happen.
PDF | 8 pages
Conduct purposeful PLCs with your teachers with this Instructional Coaching Professional Development Video! It’s the perfect way to set yourself up for coaching success! You can use this as a new coach, when you’re new to a school or district, or when you need a do-over!
PDF | 12 pages
Everything instructional coaches and administrators need to establish purposeful, effective PLCs. Get feedback from your teachers, look at student work, dig into data and make plans, create assessments, solve problems, plan together, engage in meaningful conversations, and so much more!
Zip File | 60 pages
Understanding your school data is so important to school leaders and instructional coaches! These 18 different data forms will help you collect, organize, and analyze your data. Then you’ll use your data and analysis to reflect and make a plan for next steps!
Teachers are under enormous amounts of stress and they are often asked to figure things out without the emotional support they need. This resource includes printable and digital tools and idea guides to help you give teachers the time they need to process challenging emotions and communicate about them.
Zip File | 54 pages
Building staff morale is even more challenging in this difficult time of distance learning. To have a little fun with your teachers, use these Challenge BINGO boards! Choose one of the pre-created boards, or use one of the editable boards to build your own. Email it or upload it to Google Drive or OneDrive. Teachers download the board, color it in, or use stickers to mark off which blocks they have completed. They turn it in by the date you set. You can choose a winner, or acknowledge everyone who participated with the included Google Slides!
Zip File | 23 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different reading comprehension strategy and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC or collaborative planning.
Zip Files | 12 pages
A clear PLC process for looking at student writing. Agendas, norms, templates, and forms help literacy coaches guide teams from student writing samples to instructional next steps.
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different component of informational or nonfiction text and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC or collaborative planning.
PDF | 8 pages
Build SOR knowledge in your teacher teams with these Skilled Reading Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different component of Scarborough’s Reading Rope and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC or collaborative planning.
PDF | 14 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different component of fiction and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC or collaborative planning.
ZIP File | 11 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different reading genre and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC.
Zip File | 20 pages
If you’re a literacy coach, these forms are for you!
Have better PLCs with these guides, planning forms, and lesson plan templates for reading and writing, grades 2-5!
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with these pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for professional development in the area of literacy! Engage your teachers in real discussions about syllable types, spelling patterns, phonemic awareness and phonics vocabulary with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 17 pages
Trying to build a strong literacy PLC at your school? This Literacy Coach PLC ELA Binder is the perfect all-in-one tool to help you do it! It includes the curriculum, academic vocabulary, and PLC agendas & forms you need to work with your PLCs and grow their knowledge and instruction! Best of all, it’s aligned to the TEKS for second-fifth grade!
With these resources, you will…
✅ Plan better PLCs with agendas, norms, and roles
✅ Build teacher knowledge about reading & writing with print-and-go resources
✅ Have a bank of ready-to-go strategies and printable activities for every single one of the TEKS in grades 2-5
✅ Increase reading and writing across the curriculum with a strategy ban
✅ Plan quality lessons with the lesson planning process & guides
✅ Align academic vocabulary with the word & definition list for all the TEKS in grades 2-5
✅ Analyze & discuss student writing and data
✅ Have better PLC discussions about assessments and more
Do you feel like your PLCs just aren’t producing quality instruction?
You can easy change your PLCs for the better with this Literacy Coaching PLC Binder for ELA. Your teachers will have the knowledge and strategies they need to plan and teach better lessons and your PLC meetings will be purposeful and productive.
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with these pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for professional development or PLCs about literacy. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the components of reading, reading strategies, reader’s workshop vocabulary, genre, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 40 pages
This writing genre characteristics sort can help students distinguish between the elements of narrative writing and expository writing. I have used this sort in teacher trainings as well in order to help teachers differentiate between these genres as well.
PDF | 3 pages
