In Formative Tools for Leaders in a PLC at Work®: Assessing, Analyzing, and Acting to Support Collaborative Teams, authors Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic provide school leaders with a three-stage process for formatively gauging the work of teams in professional learning community (PLC) implementation. Using the three stages of assessing, analyzing, and acting as a feedback loop, leaders examine the current reality of their PLCs. This book gives leaders the tools to understand every part of the PLC process at the schoolwide and team levels so they can ensure their teams have the support and knowledge they heed. K-12 leaders will: Learn the guiding principles of formative leadership, Use data to support PLC practices that need improvement and celebrate those that excel, Plan next steps that will strengthen team practices, Receive reproducible templates and tools to guide them in gathering and analyzing evidence from collaborative teams, Explore how teams can effectively answer the four critical questions of a PLC