Challenge:
Your PLC meets regularly, but the discussion is minimal. Team members are hesitant to share opinions or push each other’s thinking….. OR there is one person who is doing all of the sharing.

Prompt Questions:

• How can we build safety within the team and encourage productive dialogue?

• What engagement strategy might spark more ownership and voice?

Challenge:
Your team collects a lot of assessment data but doesn’t use it meaningfully to adjust instruction or interventions.

Prompt Questions:

• How can we move from “presenting data” to “acting on data”?

• Which data conversation protocols have been successful in similar settings?

Challenge:
The school, department, and/or grade level has a new curriculum, and teachers are frustrated. Planning is fragmented and lacks a constituency across the team. 

Prompt Questions:

• What systems or shared tools could help streamline planning and align instruction?

• How do we use the inquiry cycle to balance autonomy and create consistency?

Challenge:
As the PLC leader, you're doing most of the planning, organizing, and facilitating……and beginning to burn out.

Prompt Questions:

• How could shared roles help to distribute responsibilities and build capacity?

• What could be implemented immediately to begin shifting this dynamic?

Challenge:
You’re leading a PLC that includes several new teachers unfamiliar with the school’s expectations, culture, and curriculum.

Prompt Questions:

• How do we “onboard” new members without slowing the group down?

• What strategies promote inclusion, support, and efficient collaboration?