About this episode

Brig Leane discusses the development and implementation of the PLC Dashboard to enhance professional learning communities in schools.

Brig Leane, former principal of Fruita Middle School in Colorado, has over 25 years of experience in education. He has been an assistant principal and has taught at the middle and high school levels in inner-city, suburban, and rural schools in California and Colorado. In 2017 and again in 2018, Fruita Middle School made the Seattle-based GettingSmart.com’s list of 85 schools in the nation that other educators should visit. His latest book is The PLC Dashboard: Implementing, Leading, and Sustaining Your Professional Learning Community at Work . We discuss: How Brig developed the PLC Dashboard What the dashboard is and what it does What to say to a principal who has unsuccessfully tried the PLC process in the past and is not clear on what to do differently this time How does The PLC Dashboard lighten the load for an administrator? How a principal gains confidence to start and sustain the PLC process Get the PLC Dashboard from Solution Tree. Learn more about Brig’s work at www.BrigLeane.com About the host Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies , a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the…

People in this episode

Host: Ross Romano

Guest: Brig Leane

Topics covered

• Professional Learning Communities
• Educational Leadership
• School Administration
• Teaching Strategies
• Educational Tools

Keywords

• PLC Dashboard
• Brig Leane
• educational leadership
• professional learning community
• school administration
• Fruita Middle School
• GettingSmart.com

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fruita Middle School, GettingSmart.com, Solution Tree, Be Podcast Network

Books & works: The PLC Dashboard: Implementing, Leading, and Sustaining Your Professional Learning Community at Work

Places: Colorado, California

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