Karen Power

Karen Power is an educational consultant, author, and PLC at Work® associate specializing in school improvement and leadership development. She is a former teacher, principal, superintendent, and senior advisor for professional learning and leadership, and has implemented the Professional Learning Communities at Work® process in both school and district leadership roles. Her current work focuses on school improvement, leadership coaching, PLC implementation, instruction, assessment, and evidence-based decision making with a particular emphasis on long-term sustainability of collaborative practices.

Power is coauthor of Leading With Intention: Eight Areas for Reflection and Planning in Your PLC at Work®, a leadership guide that identifies eight essential areas of reflection for PLC leaders and offers practical strategies for evidence-based, student-centered decision making. She is also a coauthor of A Leader’s Guide to Reading and Writing in a PLC at Work®, Elementary, part of the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, which supports school leaders in organizing and leading elementary literacy improvement within a PLC framework.