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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
Get your PLC teams together to plan lessons and units! These simple tools help your teachers work together to create the best possible plans that meet their students’ needs.
PDF | 9 pages
Get your PLC teams together to learn about new methods and strategies! This resource gives you the tools you need to help your teachers become a true PLC: one that learns together and applies the learning into their classrooms
PDF | 16 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
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
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
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 this bundle of pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for balanced literacy professional development. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the writing process, expository and narrative characteristics for different grade levels, editing vs. revision, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 36 pages
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with this bundle of pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for balanced literacy professional development. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the writing process, expository and narrative characteristics for different grade levels, editing vs. revision, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 90 pages
Halloween data forms and slides for October PLC meetings. Teachers color-code focus standards, celebrate strengths and plan reteaching, with a little Halloween fun.
Make every data meeting purposeful all year long. Seasonal data slides and forms help instructional coaches lead PLC data digs that move from numbers to next steps.
Wrap up the year with focused data meetings. Summer and end-of-year data slides and forms help coaches lead reflective PLC data conversations.
Spring-themed data meetings with real purpose. Data slides and forms help coaches lead focused PLC data digs in the spring.
St. Patrick’s Day data meetings with real purpose. Data slides and forms help coaches lead focused PLC data digs in March.
