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The term professional learning community describes a collegial group of administrators and school staff who are united in their commitment to student learning. Hord (1997b) notes, "As an organizational…
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- The term professional learning community describes a collegial group of administrators and school staff who are united in their commitment to student learning.
Hord (1997b) notes, "As an organizational arrangement, the professional learning community is seen as a powerful staff-development approach and a potent strategy for school change and improvement."
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Professional LearningCommunities - They function as an effective strategy for building school capacity around core issues of teaching and learning (Darling-Hammond, 1995)
- They can serve as a mechanism to transform school culture.
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Why are professional learning communities important ?- …connect teachers with information, strategies and best practices.
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In other words, PLCs… - Schools that are highly effective produce results that almost entirely overcome the effects of student backgrounds
Robert Marzano,
What Works in Schools, 2003
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SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE - To understand how collaborative communities (PLCs) can impact teacher learning and student achievement.
To understand the role we will play in PLCs.
To shift our thinking from teaching to learning
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Our Objectives Today - Culturally Responsive Teaching
Effective Instructional Strategies
Examining Data
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Key Focus Areas - Building Based
Content Based
Interdisciplinary
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Types of PLCs at CHS - *PLCs will meet on Tuesdays
(second faculty mtg. of the month)
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How will PLCs be organized, and when will we meet? - Focus on student performance
Collaborate with colleagues during PLC time
Become students of teaching and consumers of research
Accept responsibility for implementing systems thatenable each student to be successful
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So, what’s my role? - Book Study Groups
- Effective Instructional Strategies
- Data Analysis
- The Achievement Gap (Race and Equity in the Classroom)
- Action Research
- Developing Interdisciplinary Units
- Cornell Note Taking
- Lesson Study*
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Looking at Student Work
- Teacher Choice
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Examples of PLC groups- What is it we expect students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
How will we respond when they don’t learn it?
How will we respond when they already know it?
Dufour, Dufour, Eaker
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Fundamental Questions - Professional Learning Communities
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I know what you’re thinking… - B ut…
You’ll make it through…
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Reduced teacher isolation
Powerful adult learning that shifts our focus from teaching to learning
Increased understanding of content and the roles teachers play in helping all students build capacity
Increased likelihood that teachers will build greater capacity for learning, will be professionally renewed and will continue to be inspired to inspire students.
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Observed Outcomes for staff - It is important that you understand that the PLC model is not a canned program or a step-by-step recipe for school improvement. It represents a process for making the structural and cultural changes necessary to help students achieve at higher levels and make teaching a more rewarding and satisfying profession.
Du Four, DuFour, Eaker
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So, here’s the bottom line… - www.allthingsplc.info
Linda Darling Hammond
Rick and Becky DuFour
Professional Learning Communities at Work (1998)
Whatever It Takes (2004)
Shirley Hord
Karin Chenoweth
It’s Being Done (2007)
Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (2006)
Schools That Learn (2000)
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Where can I find more information? - The most critical factor in a child’s life is a caring, qualified, competent teacher
~ Linda Darling Hammond
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The decision is ours.Together, we CAN make a difference!
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