welcome to all things plc
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Welcome to All Things PLC. As you come in, please take a marker. A dd your ideas and thoughts to the charts throughout the room. Thank you!. Thank You. All Things P L C !. Hyacinth Dunlap – 1 st grade Lisa Mims – 5 th grade Kari Redding- Literacy Coach. WHAT IS A P L C ?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Welcome to All Things PLC
As you come in, please take a marker. Add your ideas and thoughts to the
charts throughout the room.
Thank you!Thank You
All Things PLC!
Hyacinth Dunlap – 1st gradeLisa Mims – 5th grade
Kari Redding- Literacy Coach
WHAT IS A PLC?IT’S NOT:
–A workshop–A book study–A program–A meeting
WHAT DOES A PLC LOOK LIKE?•Our school is a PLC broken into teams.•We have a shared mission, vision, values and goals.
Collaborative teams focused on LEARNING
THE BIG IDEAS OF PLC!• We accept learning as our purpose• Examine all practices that are best for learning• Build a collaborative culture through high
performing teams• Assess our effectiveness on the basis of
results, not intentions• Did they learn? How do we know?
Why should we Collaborate?
• Gains in student achievement• Higher quality solutions to problems• Increase confidence among all staff• More peer support of strengths and
accommodation of weaknesses• Ability to test new ideas• More support for new teachers• Expanded pull of ideas, materials, and methods
- Little (1990)
Collaboration
“ The idea that a single teacher, working alone, can know and do everything to meet the diverse learning needs of 30 students everyday throughout the school year has rarely worked, and it certainly won’t meet the needs of learners in years to come.”
- Carroll (2009), p. 13
PLC Focus on the Critical Questions of Learning
1. What do we expect them to learn?2. How will we know when they have
learned it?3. How will we respond when they
don’t learn?4. How will we respond when they
already know it?
Something to think about…
“ To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe…”- Anatole France
COLONIAL’S PLC PLAN
Introduction: August 2010~ SMART goals, meeting 90 mins/week
Currently: August- June~ Meeting in PLC’s collaborating towards meeting SMART goal
Today: March 25th, 2011~ All Things PLC Presentation
Future: August 2011- June 2010~ Video Conferences/Workshops with PLC leaders (more info to come)
Pleasantville’s Plan
2007-09: We have been meeting and collaborating in Curriculum Meetings for Reading (45 mins bi-weekly with Literacy Coach)
2010-11: Implementation of PLC’s~ becoming a collaborative team focused on
data
2011- (ever): To be a PLC; not just go to a PLC
Meeting!
Getting Everyone on the bus and becoming a REAL PLC!
WHAT’S NEXT?IS CHANGE NECESSARY?
“ Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”- Albert Einstein
The Quandary
THE REAL DIFFERENCE!ON the BUS
• Goal: Every student shall succeed
• Accept that change (the right change) is necessary to improve student performance
• Believe student interest is more important than personal interest
WE FIRST!
OFF the BUS• Goal: Maintain the status quo• Reject any substainive change
if it clashes with personal agenda
• Believes that self-interest is more important than student interest
ME FIRST!
IT’S NOT ABOUT US!IT’S ABOUT THEM!