Featured Services

Building Your Skills

1-DAY COMMITMENT

Keynote

An expert author or Priority Schools in a PLC at Work® certified associate will present key ideas for transforming culture and structures that support a learning-focused culture.

Deepening Your Skills

2–4-DAY COMMITMENT

School Improvement for All Workshop

Develop a clear path to continuous improvement as teachers and administrators discover how to work together as teams of leaders. Create systematic processes and implement best practices that ensure the learning of every student.

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• Learn how to drive increased academic achievement for all students.

• Develop ways to plan for structural changes that improve school cultures.

• Gain steps for creating common assessments that enhance learning and align with state and national standards.

• Determine how collaborative teams can plan for a guaranteed and viable curriculum.

• Explore ways to gather and analyze data to examine instructional practices and inform next steps for learning.

• Create action steps for immediate implementation. MULTI-DAY

Sustaining Your Skills

Needs Assessment

Implement systemic change in your school by charting a course focused on increasing student learning. This service examines current practices to significantly improve student achievement.

• Develop an action plan to guide the work of school improvement based on the specific needs of your staff.

• Overcome a lack of progress with content-specific professional development.

• Maximize student performance and increase scores on statewide assessments.

Project Planning

Solidify goals, benchmarks, and timelines for the project with this project planning day.

• Understand the general needs of the school.

• Review data from the Needs Assessment.

• Create a 30/60/90 day plan.

• Plan for successful implementation.

Embedded Coaching

Execute PLC strategies and confront challenges head-on with expert coaching. Our trusted Priority Schools coaches will support you and your staff through every phase of implementation and monitor progress along the way to ensure you hit key benchmarks as you work to achieve sustainable success.

• Effectively lead school turnaround efforts with a framework that supports continuous improvement.

• Align your curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices with high-leverage strategies to increase student achievement.

• Gain strategies for developing a data-gathering plan, including indicators for both student performance and changes in teacher practice.

• Explore the structural changes necessary to increase shared responsibility for the success of every learner.

Empower your teams to best support student success

We’ve taken what you love about Global PD and made it even better! Redesigned specifically for collaboration, Global PD Teams will guide you through eight essential topics that make the biggest impact on student learning:

Assess and grow in focused skill areas

Mini-courses are included in your Global PD Teams subscription. Self-paced, easy-to-use, and relevant to your daily work, our mini-courses offer you a convenient way to gain competency in essential content.

Where are you on your PLC journey?

The PLC at Work® process is increasingly recognized as the most powerful strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement.

Whether you’re just beginning to develop your school’s mission, vision, values, and goals or want to deepen your existing PLC practices, our PLC Navigator Quiz can help. Take the quiz to pinpoint your PLC’s progress and get customized recommendations for next steps based on the results.

The mission, vision, values, and goals are the building blocks of a PLC, and the Navigator will map where you are on your journey.

Goals

WHY?

Why do we exist?

WHAT?

What must our school become to accomplish our purpose?

HOW?

How must we behave to achieve our vision?

HOW?

How will we mark our progress?

FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE GIVES Directions

CLARIFIES Priorities and Sharpens Focus

COMPELLING FUTURE GUIDES Behavior

COLLECTIVE COMMITMENTS

TARGETS & TIMELINES

ESTABLISHES Priorities