| Summary: | "In PLC and Your Small School: Building, Deepening, and Sustaining a Culture of Collaboration for Singletons, author Breez Longwell Daniels utilizes her immense experience to provide a guide for readers seeking to build a successful PLC system in their small, rural school. Daniels notes the unique role and culture of the small, rural school and makes these considerations central to her process of PLC implementation. Daniels accomplishes this deftly by grounding the book in both a significant amount of outside research and her own experience as the principal of a small, rural school in Wyoming - Thermopolis Middle School. This school has implemented a strong PLC system and found immense academic success as a result, all while staying true to its rural, small town roots. Thus, the book takes the reader through each of the four questions of the PLC system and provides guidance on how to best answer that question in a small school. Readers will also find guidance on effective time management, the use of data, and empowering celebrations, as well as strategies to overcome obstacles that are unique to rural schools. Readers of this book will learn from the best exactly how to build a strong PLC system in their school that both centers the rural culture of their school and prepares their students for success anywhere in the 21st century"--
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