3. Why This Book?
I chose this book because it provides insightful and
usable information to new and experienced PLC
leaders.
Dr. Kanold was an educator and PLC practitioner as
a teacher, principal, and superintendent.
4. Major Highlights
The Five Disciplines
Vision & Values
Accountability &
Celebration
Service & Sharing
Reflection & Balance
Inspiration & Influence
PLC Dimensions
Supportive & Shared
Leadership
Shared Values & Vision
Collective Learning &
Application
Shared Personal Practice
Supportive Conditions-
Relationships/Structures
5. Vision & Values
“The leadership work of developing and delivering
a compelling picture of the school’s future that
produces energy, passion, and action in yourself
and others.”
Mission is why the school exist---Vision is what we
should become---Goals are the outputs of our work---
Values represent the commitments to action necessary
to ensure the vision is realized.
Most leaders base decisions on their beliefs and not
on well-researched evidence.
6. Accountability & Celebration
“The leadership work of delivering specific
improvement in student achievement results, and
monitoring stakeholder actions that lead to those
results, with consequences.”
Have courage to do more than monitor.
Using “Loose-Tight” Leadership.
Tight---guiding what must be done
Loose---allowing other to decide how it gets
done under defined quality parameters.
7. Service & Sharing
“The leadership work of demonstrating personal
accountability of the shared vision and to all who
may be affected by your thought, words, actions,
and inactions.”
N-S-E-W Sphere of Influence
Becoming a Level 5 leader who is a servant to others,
shows humility, expands their leadership base,
exercises good judgment, establishes personal
intimacy, builds communities of practice, and builds
the relational capacity of teams.
8. Reflection & Balance
“The leadership work of intentionally and
strategically engaging in and disengaging from
high-energy activities.”
Self-Reflection
Team-Reflection
Avoid Excuses in your sphere of influence
Pendulum of PLC Leadership
Adults 1st---Adults & Students---Students 1st
9. Inspiration & Influence
“The leadership work of consciously creating an
enduring organizational legacy through the daily
building of effective PLC practices and behaviors.”
Legacy Practice 1: Responding to Failure
Legacy Practice 2: Preventing Deep Regret
Legacy Practice 3: Choosing the Path of Enduring
Inspiration
PLC leaders are remembered for what they do for
others
10. Related PLC Knowledge
The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders is intertwined
with the dimensions of professional learning
communities. The book is specifically designed to
provide PLC leaders effective and proven techniques
in PLC leadership.
