Welcome to All Things PLC

As you come in, please take a marker and add your ideas and thoughts to the charts

throughout the room.

Thank you!Thank You

All Things PLC

Hyacinth DunlapLisa Mims

Kari Redding

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 a 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!