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50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+

30+ videos including "strategies in action"

50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+ equips educators with the tools and actions needed to foster highly effective professional learning communities.

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  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9798348810641
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2025
  • Page Count: 240
  • Publication date: July 15, 2025
Price: $39.95

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50 Strategies for Activating the Full Potential of Your PLC+ Team

Are you maximizing the impact of your professional learning communities? 50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+ equips educators with the tools and actions needed to foster highly effective PLC+ teams.

Successful PLCs are built on a foundation of strong collaboration, unified purpose, trust, and effective communication. The 50+ strategies in this essential guide address the challenges and possibilities within teacher teams by focusing on the role of activators, group members who work to ensure that all members of the PLC+ contribute to meaningful, solution-driven progress.

Grounded in experience and practical guidance, this resource is designed to make every step of your PLC+ experience impactful. With strategies organized into eight comprehensive sections, the authors provide the frameworks necessary to create an engaged, productive learning culture with:

  • Eight categories of strategies aligned with the five guiding PLC+ questions to support targeted and actionable leadership
  • A practical cross-reference table connecting the strategies to content with additional context and insights to deepen understanding
  • Tools for developing activator skills that enhance facilitation, decision-making, and solution-oriented collaboration within your PLC+ teams
  • Concrete protocols and frameworks for addressing team dynamics, meeting structures, and continuous improvement

From establishing goals to reviewing results, you'll find purposeful actions that drive positive outcomes for educators and students alike. Take the next step in your PLC+ leadership to shape the future of learning in your school.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Douglas Fisher

Douglas Fisher is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California. In 2022, he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame by the Literacy Research Association. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design, as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook 2/e, Your Introduction to PLC+, The Illustrated Guide to Teacher Credibility, Instructional Strategies that Move Learning Forward: 30 Tools that Support Gradual Release of Responsibility, and Welcome to Teaching!


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Nancy Frey

Nancy Frey is a Professor in Educational Leadership at San Diego State and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. She is a member of the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Research Panel. Her published titles include 50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+, The Illustrated Guide to Visible Learning, Welcome to Teaching Multilingual Learners, Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers, and RIGOR Unveiled: A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance.

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James Marshall
James Marshall is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University where he also leads the Doctorate in Educational Leadership program. A credentialed teacher, he began his career as an informal science educator at the San Diego Zoo. Jim’s passion centers on the design of learning programs that yield predictable results. He has written broadly on needs assessment, learning initiative design, implementation, and program evaluation. His published books include Right From the Start: The Essential Guide to Implementing School Initiatives, Fixing Education Initiatives in Crisis: 24 Go-To Strategies, and RIGOR Unveiled: A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Your Introduction to PLC+ Content Cross-Reference Table

50 Strategies for Activating Your PLC+

Activating Questions 1–5

Activator Skills and Abilities

Continuous Improvement

Function and Impact

Meeting Moves

Norms of Collaborative Work

Team Dynamics

Time Matters

Reflecting on Your Activation of the PLC+ Journey

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