Effective PLCs
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Transcript of Effective PLCs
How to start, how to clean upJuly 30, 2013
*Effective PLCs
*Background Information
*Who I am*My experiences with PLCs*Seven years, five at Lakeview as an
administrator*A backwards journey, will share today
*Credibility?
*My School
*Caveats
*Not an expert*Rely heavily on resources, will share today*Answers will vary, depending on your school and situation--Culture
*1st things 1st
*Why PLCs?*Improve Student Performance*How?*Two heads are better than one
*Definition
*National Staff Development Council (A5)*http://www.aypf.org/documents/62609NSDC
DefinitionofProfessionalDevelopment908.pdf*Resource: the Professional Learning
Association*www.learningforward.org*Note the change: “Professional
Development” to “Professional Learning”*On Common Ground edited by DuFour,
Eaker, and DuFour
*Walk the Talk
*We say we want students to be “Life-Long Learners;” are we willing to do that ourselves?*Don’t care if you’re a rookie just out of
school; don’t care if you’re retiring this year;*Life is about learning.
*Nuts and Bolts
*First, Time*“Job Embedded” Learning Communities*It has to happen during contract time.*Yes, there’s a sacrifice in student learning
time, but the trade off is professional, collegial discussions.
*Time
*You have to sell this point:*To your teachers,*We do not work in the one room school house
any more.*To your community,*To your board.
*The Art of Focused Conversations by Nelson
*Public Relations
*It is a sacrifice of one thing, but on a scale, the benefits have the potential to outweigh the drawbacks.*http://www.lakeview2167.com/domain/173*For us, early outs about every other week.
*Once you have the time,
*You own the expectations.*District has a right to assign.*For Lakeview, PLCs became
nonnegotiable.*“We are doing PLCs. The academic research
says they are the way to go.”*You get out of it what you put into it.*Our question: Do you want to explore a little
extra compensation for it? Q-comp.
*Job Embedded Part 2
*The professional conversations need to be about the work.*No water cooler talk.*What’s going to be most useful:* In regards to student achievement:* Essential Outcomes (3rd)* Formative Assessments (2nd)* Instructional Strategies (1st)* Summative Assessments (4th)* Technology (5th)
*Next: Structure
*What to do during this time?*How do you make the time productive?*Learning by Doing by DuFour, DuFour,
Eaker, and Many*PLC Leaders (Leading by Design by Erkens
and Twadell)*and Norms and…
*Protocols: A Necessary Evil
*Based ours on Annenberg Protocol for Sharing Student Work.*Time allocations for meetings.*Calendar layout for the whole year, not
just meeting to meeting.*Roles: rotate facilitation, timekeeping,
note taking, sustenance
*Expectations
*PLCs are what we do.*They are nonnegotiable.*Be an active, productive participant, or
look for another place of employment.*Train PLC Leaders in addressing behaviors:*How to Deal with Difficult People-*What a PLC is not:*http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0c6mH4eEs
*Follow Up
*Check in with your PLCs every time.*Make the rounds.*Be available.*Mix it up; sit in on them.*Be an active, productive participant.*Know the pulse.
*PLC Leaders
*Continuous Meetings*Week before early outs*Book Study*Learning by Doing*Common Formative Assessments by
Ainsworth and Viegut*Leading by Design*21st Century Skills by Trilling and Fadel
*Our Journey and Resources
*Instructional Strategies*Best Practice by Zemelman, Daniels, and
Hyde
*What are we Instructing On?
*Formative Assessments*Checking for Understanding by Fisher and
Frey*Advancing Formative Assessment in Every
Classroom by Moss and Brookhart*What Teachers Really Need to Know about
Formative Assessment by Greenstein
*Differentiation
*Blended*Differentiated Instructional Strategies by
Gregory and Chapman*Total Participation Techniques by Himmele
and Himmele*Leading and Managing a Differentiated
Classroom by Tomlinson and Imbeau*Professional Development for
Differentiating Instruction by Strickland
*Can we do it all?
*Essential Outcomes*Power Standards by Ainsworth*Learning Targets by Moss and Brookhart*Designing & Teaching Learning Goals &
Objectives by Marzano*Essential Questions by McTighe and Wiggins
*Next Steps
*Technology (1 to 1 devices)*Curriculum 21 by Hayes Jacobs*Partnership for 21st Century Skills*www.p21.org
*Other Considerations
*Developing Standards Based Report Cards by Guskey and Bailey*Becoming a Reflective Teacher by
Marzano
*Questions?
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvO9e_hOzw4&feature=player_embedded#
*My Contact Information
*Phil Lienemann*K-12 Principal*Lakeview Public Schools*Cottonwood MN