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Finding Our Place
School Librarians and Professional Learning #iasl12 Communities
A Journey
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Today’s Learning Intentions– understand the components and importance of a professional learning community
– compare current practice in your building/district to the components
– locate viable pathways for embedding yourself in the work of PLCs.
“The PLC label has proceeded the concept” Shirley Hord
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“The term (PLCs) has been used so ubiquitously that is in danger of losing all meaning” - Richard DuFour
Current thinking?
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Current thinking?
“Professionals caring for and working to improve student learning together, by engaging in
continuous collective learning of their own” – Andy Hargreaves
PLCs are student focused.
PLCs are student focused.
“Teachers in the more effective schools made all decisions based on what was best for students, as opposed to what was easiest for teachers.”– Todd Whitaker Seven Simple Secrets
PLCs are student focused
• What do we want each student to learn?• How will we know when each student has learned it?• How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty
in learning?”- DuFour
A Journey
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Lesson Design
Teacher Leadership
Curricula Planning
Assessments of Student Learning
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•Focus on Teaching and Learning
•Nurturing a Collaborative Culture
•Planning and working strategically
•Teaming with other learning specialists
- Allison Zmuda
Assessments of Student Learning
RTI Formative
Summative
Portfolios
Curricula Planning
PBL
Iowa Core
Content Literacy
Curriculum Mapping
Lesson Design
EDI UbD
Inquiry Concept Based
Best Practices
Teacher Leadership
Leading / Planning
PD
Data Team
1:1 initiatives
Components of PLCs (Hord)Shared Beliefs,
Values, and Vision
Shared and Supportive Leadership
Collective Learning and Its
Application
Supportive Conditions
Shared Personal Practice
Focus on student learning which is informed by faculty’s own learning
Administrators and faculty hold shared power and authority for making decisions
What the community decides to learn and how they will learn it in order to impact students needs
Structural Factors – time, place, resources, and policiesRelational – Human and intrapersonal development / needs
Community members give and receive feedback that informs their individual improvement and the organization
Components of PLCs (Hord) http://db.tt/n9k92O88
Shared Beliefs,
Values, and Vision
Shared and Supportive Leadership
Collective Learning and Its
Application
Supportive Conditions
Shared Personal Practice
Focus on student learning which is informed by faculty’s own learning
Administrators and faculty hold shared power and authority for making decisions
What the community decides to learn and how they will learn it in order to impact students needs
Structural Factors – time, place, resources, and policiesRelational – Human and intrapersonal development / needs
Community members give and receive feedback that informs their individual improvement and the organization
Where to Begin?
Finding connections to your practice.
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Shared and Supportive Leadership
Collective Learning and Its Application
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Supportive Conditions- Structural Factors
Time, Place, Resources, Policies
Supportive Conditions- Relational Factors
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Shared personal practice
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Finding Our Place
School Librarians and Professional Learning Communities
Ernie Coxernest.cox@gmail.comTwitter: erniecprairiecreeklibrary.blogspot.com