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Revisiting the WHY Behind Professional Learning Communities

I am currently consulting with a school district leadership team as they plan to introduce Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) systemwide next school year.  Quite often, I am consulting with teams looking to strengthen, change, or fix PLCs that too are just another meeting on teachers’ busy calendars. The effectiveness of PLCs doesn’t lie in their […]

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Using The Results Pyramid for Understanding and Change

In their book, “Change the Culture, Change the Game,” Roger Connors and Tom Smith present the Results Pyramid. It illustrates that our experiences foster beliefs, our beliefs influence actions, and our actions produce results. https://training.hr.ufl.edu/resources/LeadershipToolkit/job_aids/ChangingCulture.pdf In order to initiate a change of culture in an organization, leadership needs to begin its thinking by working backwards, […]

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