How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC

Effective collaboration can help schools overcome obstacles and improve students’ and teachers’ results. To productively collaborate, teacher teams must establish a framework that defines team members’ roles and evaluates their progress. How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC helps readers develop this framework and delves into the challenges that collaborative teams may face and the practical steps teams can take to address them.

Using this straightforward guide, F–12 teachers and teams will

• evaluate the stages that teams will move through as they collaborate to reach an agreement
• consider step-by-step processes they can use to cultivate effective collaboration
• determine the responsibilities that different members of a collaborative school team should hold
• consult case studies that illustrate the problems that teacher teams may face as they collaborate and how they may address them.