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This Powerpoint presentation by Faye L. Lewis, an assistant principal in Essex County New Jersey, will make Professional Learning Community implementation easy for those venturing into the worls of PLCs.
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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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o They function as an effective strategy for building school capacity around core issues of teaching and learning (Darling-Hammond, 1995)
o They can serve as a mechanism to transform school culture.
Why are professional learning communities important ?
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…connect teachers with information, strategies and best practices.
In other words, PLCs…
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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
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1. To understand how collaborative communities (PLCs) can impact teacher learning and student achievement.
2. To understand the role we will play in PLCs.
3. To shift our thinking from teaching to learning
Our Objectives Today
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Culturally Responsive TeachingEffective Instructional Strategies
Examining Data
Key Focus Areas
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Building Based Content Based
Interdisciplinary
Types of PLCs at CHS
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*PLCs will meet on Tuesdays (second faculty mtg. of the month)
How will PLCs be organized, and when will we meet?
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Focus on student performance Collaborate with colleagues during PLC
time Become students of teaching and
consumers of research Accept responsibility for implementing
systems that enable each student to be successful
So, what’s my role?
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o Book Study Groupso Effective Instructional Strategieso Data Analysiso The Achievement Gap (Race and Equity in the Classroom)o Action Research o Developing Interdisciplinary Unitso Cornell Note Taking o Lesson Study*o Culturally Responsive Teachingo Looking at Student Worko Teacher Choice
Examples of PLC groups
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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
Fundamental Questions
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I know what you’re thinking…
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B ut…You’ll make it through…
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Shared responsibility for the development of all students and collective responsibility for student success
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.
Observed Outcomes for staff
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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
So, here’s the bottom line…
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www.allthingsplc.info
Linda Darling Hammond
Rick and Becky DuFour
Professional Learning Communities at Work (1998)
Whatever It Takes (2004)
Shirley Hord
Karin ChenowethIt’s Being Done (2007)
Peter SengeThe Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (2006)
Schools That Learn (2000)
Where can I find more information?
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The most critical factor in a child’s life is a caring, qualified, competent teacher
~ Linda Darling Hammond
The decision is ours.Together, we CAN make a difference!