“Authentic Intellectual Work”

Professional Learning Communities

Spring 2012 SurveyDistrict wide Results

Is Your PLC…

I know the norms established by my team:

Members of my team are living up to the established norms:

Our team maintains focus on the established team goal(s):

Our team is making progress toward the achievement of our goal(s):

The team is having a positive impact on my classroom practice:

PLCs – Key Points

Increase student achievement in measurable ways

Utilize assessment / other data and student work samples

Identify and implement teaching and learning strategies

Work in an ongoing cycle of focused collaboration

In a professional learning community, collaboration focuses on the critical questions of student and teacher learning:What is essential for students to know?How will we know when they have learned it?What interventions will we put in place when they don’t

learn it?What do teachers need to know and be able to do to support

the student learning?What professional learning must the team engage in for

student learning?

PLCs - Critical Questions

PLCs – SMART GOALS

Specific: Be specific about what is to be accomplished

Measurable: Identify how the goal will be measured

Attainable: Ensure the capacity exists to accomplish the goal

Results Based: Identify the benchmarks and outcomes for the goal

Time-bound: Set a specific timeframe for completing the goal

By June 2012, as a result ofimplementing Math Reflex, the

secondgrade students will show an

individualgrowth of 60% from the initialbaseline assessment in one digitaddition and subtraction fact

fluencyby being actively engaged in the

MathReflex program at least once a

weekwith growth being assessed at

eachmonthly PLC meeting usingestablished Math Reflex reports.

PLCs – SMART Goals - Sample

Our goal is by June 2012 to have 75% of all students identified as having behavioral disabilities will increase on-task behavior within the school setting by 20%. This will be measured in two ways, based on the current in-class behavior management plans: in the Kindergarten through third grade behavior disabilities classroom, an increase in the amount of stars earned each day; in the fourth through sixth grade behavior disabilities classroom, an increase in the total amount of points earned each day, out of a possible 14 points.

Are we able to adjust the goal? The structure makes it feel “artificial.”How do we handle a member who

doesn’t contribute or doesn’t stay for the whole session?

PLCs- FAQs&Cs

PLCs – Responsibilities

During SeptemberForm PLC teamDevelop norms Review dataSet goalDetermine initial task

During the YearMeet as requiredComplete activities

and document using logs

Prepare and share year-end presentation

Note: Forms will be emailed to you and can be found in GT Common/X drive (PLC – Forms – 2012-2013).

PLCs – Meeting Time

Frequency…At least three times per month in-person

(teams with common planning time) or electronically (teams without common planning time)

During…Faculty meetings: September, November,

February, and AprilArticulation afternoons: January, March, and

May