Letter From the Authors About the Authors Introduction Part 1. Activating Your PLC+: Overview Activating Your PLC+ What Effective Activators Do Part 2. Activation Requires Effective Collaboration Facilitation Versus Activation Five Qualities of a Good Activator Part 3. Activating Your PLC+: Establishing Roles and Developing Team Cohesion Supporting Team Cohesion Establishing PLC+ Roles Stepping Into Roles Matched to PLC+ Team Member Strengths Part 4. Activating Your PLC+: Norms and Authentic Instructional Protocols in Your PLC+ Establishing Operating Norms Social and Emotional Check-Ins Establishing Process Norms Operating Norms Versus Process Norms Utilizing Authentic Instructional Protocols Part 5. Activating the Five Essential Questions and Four Crosscutting Values of Your PLC+ Activating Guiding Question 1: Where Are We Going? Activating Guiding Question 2: Where Are We Now? Activating Guiding Question 3: How Do We Move Learning Forward? Activating Guiding Question 4: What Did We Learn Today? Activating Guiding Question 5: Who Benefited and Who Did Not Benefit? Part 6. The Nuts and Bolts of Your PLC+ Scheduling PLC+ Meetings Setting Aside the Time for the Work of the PLC+ Overcoming Challenges: (Not Enough) Time Developing an Assessment Calendar Part 7. Activating a High-Impact and High-Functioning PLC+ High Impact Versus High Functioning Part 8. Activating Conversations Focused on Equity Closing Remarks References Index