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Watch leaders in action within a professional learning community. This short program for PLC leaders uses unscripted interviews and footage of daily school activity to illustrate the role of effective leadership in embedding PLC practices and values. Content aligns with the best-selling PLC resources Learning by Doing and Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work(tm). The educators in this video share experience-based insight into the principal's responsibility to create the conditions that allow staff to continually build their capacity to ensure learning for all. They demonstrate the importance of dispersed leadership and mutual accountability between leaders and staff, and they address the necessity to provide clarity and coherence for staff by aligning the structure and culture of the school with its core purpose. PLC principals discuss how to balance between loose and tight leadership, implement change, and confront resisters. The video can be viewed alone or in teams. Activities in the Facilitator's Guide extend the learning for teams into a three-hour, hands-on workshop. Benefits See and hear administrators and educators actively leading PLCs and sharing experience-based leadership advice in unscripted interviews. Learn field-tested solutions to real-world challenges. Save time. This video provides a quick and powerful PD session individuals or teams. Use the Facilitator's Guide to maximize your learning experience.