Join the podcast host Prisma Lopez-Marin as she speaks with best-selling authors Paula Maeker and Jacqueline Heller who share insights from their book Literacy in a PLC at Work®. Learn more about what inspired them to write this essential book, and its purpose in meeting the diverse needs of students and emphasizing the importance of supporting teachers.

Tune in to hear their valuable insights into navigating literacy instruction within the framework of PLCs at Work, emphasizing collaborative efforts and collective responsibility to enhance student learning outcomes. They also provide practical guidance and actionable steps for educators to effectively implement these approaches in their own classrooms and schools.

Join the conversation to discover:

● Strategies for advancing literacy instruction in grades K–6

● Practical guidance on collaboration and collective responsibility in PLCs

● Insights on measuring effectiveness and utilizing data to build impact

About Paula Maeker and Jacqueline Heller:
Paula Maeker is an educator, consultant, and advocate for learner-centered education. She has over twenty-four years’ experience as an elementary teacher, literacy specialist, instructional coach, Title 1 program coordinator, campus administrator, director of elementary literacy, and director of instructional design.

Jacqueline Heller focuses on building capacity and collective efficacy with teachers, to ensure all students learn at high levels. As a literacy teacher and coach at Mason Crest Elementary, she helped the school become the first National Model Professional Learning Community to receive the DuFour Award.

Order Your Copy Today! Literacy in a PLC at Work® Guiding Teams to Get Going and Get Better in Grades K–6 Reading

On this episode of RCG Founders – Education Leadership and Legacy, a miniseries within Charting New Paths, we chat with Vicky Dearing, one of the founders of Results Coaching Global. Vicky shares a wealth of insights on the impact of professional development, her journey towards education leadership, and her experience with Results Coaching Global.

Vicky reflects on how she fell in love with teaching throughout the different grade levels, and how it opened many doors for her including her becoming a principal and coaching leader.

Join the conversation to see:

● What inspired the idea to create Results Coaching Global, and how Vicky was invited to join the founders

● How RCG got its name and mission

● Vicky’s expertise and experience of being a principal and how it aids RCG today

● How RCG makes an impact on educators and leads schools

About Vicky Dearing
Vicky Dearing, MC.C., is the Results Coaching Global Founder. She has spent her entire career in education. She has been a teacher, administrator, and principal, leading a school to a national blue ribbon school of success. She began working with coaching during her time as principal and stepped into leadership coaching when she joined her RCG colleagues. Vicky has been a co-author for both RCG books and has a master level of credentials with the international coaching federation, and is a lead instructor with Results Coaching Global Founder.

Links:

● Learn more about Results Coaching Global with Vicky Dearing: https://resultscoachingglobal.com/our-team/

● Follow Vicky Dearing on:
Twitter https://twitter.com/co244
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickydearing

In our last but certainly not the least episode of Reaching Summit, author and speaker Luis F. Cruz joins Prisma Lopez-Marin to discuss his excitement for the upcoming Summit on PLC at Work® and how he felt attending his very first summit.

Luis shares his growth from being a struggling middle school principal to teaching and leading over 5,000 educational leaders to success.

Tune in to discover:

● What attendees can expect from his closing keynote at The Summit on PLC at Work®

● Ways educators can respond to this resistance to the PLC process effectively

● How Luis balances change that enhances his leadership skills

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About the author

Luis F. Cruz, PhD, is the former principal of Baldwin Park High School and Holland Middle School, located east of Los Angeles, California. He has been a teacher at the elementary level and administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Dr. Cruz is an educational consultant who presents throughout the United States on PLCs, school culture, the role of school leadership teams, RTI, and the conditions needed for students and parents learning English as a second language to be academically successful.

Books mentioned in this interview

Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders

https://www.solutiontree.com/time-for-change.html

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