This document summarizes key points from the book "The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders" by Timothy D. Kanold. It discusses the five disciplines of PLC leadership: vision and values, accountability and celebration, service and sharing, reflection and balance, and inspiration and influence. It also outlines the dimensions of professional learning communities as supportive and shared leadership, shared values and vision, collective learning and application, shared personal practice, and supportive conditions around relationships and structures. The document provides highlights about each of the five disciplines and how they are intertwined with effective PLC practices.

2. Timothy D. Kanold
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3. Why This Book?
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 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
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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
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 “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
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 “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
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 “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
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 “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
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 “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
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 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.