Author Brig Leane introduces the PLC Dashboard, a tool designed to help administrators and teachers efficiently implement the PLC at Work® process. This resource utilizes a seven-step learning cycle, complete with illustrative examples, concise templates, and reflective exercises. The dashboard helps clarify and strengthen the PLC process to…

K-12 educators will find a structured, evidence-driven approach to Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), offering powerful tools and facilitation techniques to enhance both teaching and professional growth. Unlike typical approaches to data teams, the VITAL (Visibly Improving Teaching and Learning) Collaboration model uses concrete evidence…

The premier Tier 3 intervention for the Pyramid Model, Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children (PTR-YC) is a research-proven, family-centered approach used in preschool settings nationwide to resolve persistent challenging behaviors. Now this bestselling PTR-YC guidebook is in a thoughtfully revised second edition, with enhancements and…

Since its publication in 2012, "The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students" has helped countless classroom teachers, special educators, and others implement an effective, new approach to teaching focused on skill-building, practical interventions, and purposeful, positive interactions…

A field tested workshop program to prepare rural women for education and job opportunities is described in this comprehensive manual for workshop leaders. An introductory chapter states program goals and philosophy and covers planning and implementing the workshops; topics include staff selection, publicity and recruiting, materials, workshop size…

This packet of materials is intended for high school educators who are interested in implementing career education programs. Introductory information explains the need for career education, the targeted audience, access to resources, and objectives. Descriptions of the career education programs of seven schools throughout the province of Alberta…

This resource guide/workbook is designed to show how to form and operate a tech prep/associate degree (TPAD) consortium. It contains 20 activity-oriented units that can be used by the planning teams to put the consortium together and get it running. Each unit may contain descriptive material (or scenarios), guidelines, resources, suggestions,…

Intended as a resource in developing and conducting programs to encourage talented female students in broadening their career options and to increase positive self-awareness, this manual provides step-by-step procedures for replicating a fourteen-session diagnostic/prescriptive career development program for grade 11. Section 1, Program Overview,…