Reboot, Refine, & Reinvigorate Your PLCs

Foster collaboration, drive continuous learning, and create a dynamic learning environment.

PLCs don’t work when they…

Don’t have psychological safety

Don’t have high expectations

Build a Collaborative PLC Culture

It’s true among students and it’s true among adults - people do not necessarily know how to collaborate. It is a skill and it can be learned.

We help PLC leaders learn how to lead, communicate, and use tools that foster collaboration, equity, and results among your PLC members.

What People Are Saying

  • We were hoping to revitalize our Peer Coaching Program. Shannon and Ross were able to step in and immediately get buy-in from our teacher leaders by not only providing strategies but effectively modeling them.

    Jacob Feldman, High School Principal, La Crescent-Hokah Public Schools

  • The systems and insights developed by Ross and Shannon have profoundly influenced the professional growth of our educators and positively affected the overall student learning outcomes in our district.

    Jeremy Graves, Technology Instructional Coach/Media Coordinator, Winona Area Public Schools

  • "Ross and Shannon's practical way of reflecting on coaching has impacted my practice by helping me build stronger connections with other coaches and adopt frameworks for meaningful coaching conversations."

    Melanie Kulmeshkenova, Instructional Coach, Rochester, MN

Facilitative Leadership for PLCs

In this workshop, you will learn and practice the skills and strategies of facilitative leadership, a mindset and approach that empowers PLCs to achieve their goals and overcome their challenges. You will discover how to:

Recapture the purpose of the PLC

Enhance facilitative leadership

Discover the principles of adult learning, and how to design and deliver learner-focused professional development that engages and motivates your PLC members.

Communicate for equity

Using inclusive discussion models, effective question techniques, and structured protocols to facilitate productive and respectful conversations among your PLC members, and drive decisions and consensus with your teams.

Revisit the essential elements and benefits of collaborative learning and identifying the common pitfalls and barriers that prevent PLCs from reaching their full potential.

Provide facilitative feedback

Learning the difference between evaluation, advice, and feedback, and how to use various models and tools to give and receive constructive and actionable feedback that supports learning and development.

  • "The 7 steps of adult learning theory made me reflect and think through what has been missing in many of the PD offerings I’ve delivered." Elementary Instructional Coach

    Laurie Payton

  • "This was a very meaningful practice, especially as a new coach. Lots of takeaways and I will be able to practice and apply immediately." HS Instructional Coach HS Instructional Coach

    Jamie Kokot

  • "This is unlike any theory-to-practice workshop I have been to before. Our team has agreed to implement a shared vision of practice based on the skills we now have."

    Ashley A. District Leadership Lead

  • “Execution of leadership has never been so clear to me. I always understood the idea of instructional leadership, but this showed me how to implement systems to carry it out.

    Dave C. High School Principal

Sample Workshop Content

Module 1

Facilitative Leadership Mindset

  • Leading the adult learner; Principles of andragogy; Facilitation vs teaching vs management; Learner-focused PD; Adult cycle of learning

  • Designing an adult learning experience.

Module 2

Communication for Equity

  • Inclusive discussion models; Leading team meetings

  • Lesson Reflection Protocol

  • Driving decisions and consensus.

Module 3

Facilitative Feedback Methods

  • Evaluation vs advice vs feedback - Why facilitative feedback is ideal

  • Feedback like an athletic coach; FACTS; Using Drama Triangle to give feedback; Meta coaching exercise.

  • Power of peer-to-peer leadership

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