Aligning School Districts as PLCs

District-wide alignment is the organisational equivalent of ensuring that every student learns. To fully realise its potential, a professional learning community (PLC) must align around three big ideas: a focus on learning, a collaborative culture, and a results orientation. For each of these ideas, there must be common agreement and expectations around certain non-negotiable policies and practices. This book shows how to align around these non-negotiables across strategic, tactical and operational roles. The authors explain

• Alignment’s essential components
• Loose versus tight leadership
• The importance of role bridges
• Intentional collaboration
• The need for audience-based data
• The use of alignment self-assessment instruments

PLCs have demonstrated their success. Aligning School Districts as PLCs takes up the challenge of replicating that success on a larger scale.