PLC’s: Bumpy Roads & Smooth Highways on the Way to our

Destination!

Road Map

Opening Activities

Our Journey: Bumpy to Smooth Roads

Processing Your Learning

Q & A

Closing

Getting to Know our Audience!

“Popcorn”

Inclusion Strategy: Clearing (Adaptive

Schools) Begin meeting by having members clear

thoughts on their minds

Nothing is irrelevant

Allow members to speak only once

Use round-robin approach

Silence is OK

Beginnings: Bumpy Road

About 5 years ago

Superintendent Driven – Top Down

No buy-in

No training

Agendas & facilitation: administrative

Ineffective collaboration

Lack of purpose

Once a month formal meetings

The Fork in the Road!Two teams attend sessions with the

DuFours & begin talking!

Taking a Turn in the Right Direction:

Opening Day Staff Meeting

Mapping the Journey:

Developing Common Knowledge through the Du Four DVD series

Making the Commitment

Our Banner

The Road Repaved….

Superintendent Driven to...

Principal Enthusiasm and Buy-In

No Buy-In to…PLC Facilitators: Teacher Leadership

No Training to…

DVD’s for all staff, professional books available, & continued staff workshops/conference with the DuFours

Agendas & facilitation

administrative to…PLC facilitators & focus on the four

questions

The Four Questions:

What do we want students to know?

How will we know if they know it?

What will we do if they don’t know it?

What will we do if they already know it?

Ineffective Collaboration to…

Adaptive Schools(adult version of our Responsive

Classrooms)

Lack of Purpose to…

Focus on the four questions

Once a Month Formal Meetings to…

Weekly meetings as desired by teams

The Four Questions:

What do we want students to know? - Essential Learnings

How will we know if they know it? – Common Formative Assessments

What will we do if they don’t know it? – WIN Block & RTI

What will we do if they already know it? - WIN Block

What do we want students to know?

Essential Learnings

How will we know if they know it?

Common Formative Assessments

Common Formative Assessment

What will we do if they don’t know it?What will we do if

they already know it?

RTI &WIN Block

RTI

Processing all this Information:

Walk About Review

Sending Postcards about:

Common Knowledge (Vision & Training)

Relationships amongst teammates

WIN Blocks – meeting student needs academically & socially

They are “all – all of our kids!”

Still Navigating the Map:

Documenting Student Progress

Common Time

The Impact of Staff Cuts

Dealing with APPR Interference!

Districtwide Implementation

Q&A

Closing

Thank you & good luck!