PLC Process: What, Why, HowPre-Planning 2019-2020

PLC Reflection Survey

Take a moment as a PLC team and use the PLC Reflection Survey concerning

your PLC’s current data usage and collaboration quality. For each question

you will choose expert, novice, or beginner to rank your PLC’s

implementation of the process.

Expert: We do this well and it increases student achievement

Novice: We do this sometimes and it may increase student achievement

Beginner: We rarely or never attempt this

What is a PLC?

What are 3 words you would use to describe a PLC?

Go to PollEV.com/marksheridan262 or text MARKSHERIDAN262 to 22333.

Discuss

Today’s Session

Our Goal is to understand:

What is a PLC?

What are PLC expectations for this school year?

What are some tools/exemplars available to guide your PLC work?

Characteristics of an Effective PLC

Collaboration to answer the essential questions of any

PLC.

What is a PLC?

PLC stands for professional learning community. A PLC is a group of teachers teaching the same content. PLCs share the work together to:

Study standards, review concepts and skills necessary to master the standards, and determine how the standards are assessed

Select research-based instructional strategies and assessment techniques

Plan lessons and agree on the evidence of student learning that PLC members will share

Implement lessons, noting successes and challenges, and collect the agreed upon evidence of student learning

Analyze student work/data by revisiting the standards being addressed and identify students' areas of strengths and needs

Adjust instruction after reflecting on disparate teaching experiences, selecting alternative instructional strategies and determining how future instructional challenges will be addressed

What a PLC is not…

An opportunity to complain and vent

Unstructured or "on the fly"

A planning meeting

The leader or one teacher doing most or all of the work

Functional unless all members participate and contribute

A time to grade work or complete paperwork

A time to doubt student ability

An effective PLC is…

An ongoing process.

Different PLCs will be at different points based on multiple factors (history, time

spent on process, familiarity with content, etc.)

Examples of PLC Best Practices

Instructional Planning including Norms, Agendas, and

Expectations

Examples of PLC Best Practices

Common Formative Assessments - Protocols

Team Protocol for Common Formative Assessment

Team Response to Common Formative Assessment Data

With your PLC (or a neighbor)…

What part of this protocol stands out to me?

What part of this protocol may need to be adjusted to fit our PLC/Content Area?

Examples of PLC Best Practices

Data Analysis that leads to appropriate supports

(Remediation or Acceleration)

Common Assessment Analysis

End of Unit Reflection Questions

With your PLC (or a neighbor)…

What part of this protocol stands out to me?

What part of this protocol may need to be adjusted to fit our PLC/Content Area?

What does it look like in non-core

subjects? Or singletons? Keys to effective PLCs include answering the 5 essential questions and

COLLABORATION.

Collaboration can mean different things:

Communicate with teachers at different schools.

Discuss student data & planning within your department.

Discuss student data & planning with similar content areas (e.g. writing across curriculum,

performance tasks)

Discuss student data & planning with other teachers’ of students (e.g. Freshman Academy)

Utilize instructional coaches and Curriculum Leaders as thought partners

The PLC process improves consistency in rigor and expectations school wide

These are OUR students!!!

What is my next step?

Using your PLC Reflection results & our discussion items, work with your PLC

to determine:

Our BIGGEST priority this upcoming school year.

Write this on our PLC Reflection Survey

Our GOAL (year long outcome) for this upcoming school year.

Write this on our PLC Reflection Survey

Any concerns or questions we have before collaborating with our PLC.

Accessing PLC Resources

PLC Resources are available on the new Fulton County PLC Portal located in

Classlink (Link HERE).

When accessing Classlink, click FCS APPS, and then PLC.

Ticket out the Door

Turn in your PLC Reflection Survey

before leaving. Thank you!

Deliverables for Next Week:

• Syllabus by PLC

• 1st Week Lesson Plans

• PLC Norms

• PLC Meeting Calendar

• Faculty Handbook

The Why for the PLC Process

Read the three scenarios that are placed on your table. (5 minutes)

Based on the color card you are given, read the scenarios focusing on:

Yellow – Positive Aspects

Red – Negative Aspects

Green – Improvement Planner (how to make it better)

Blue – View as a Parent

Pink – View as a Student

Purple – View as a Teacher on the PLC

PLC Share Out

Why is this work important?

Professional collaboration on best practices

Analyze student data and share instructional practice

best to meet the needs of OUR students

Greater academic gains and student growth

Reduced isolation of teachers

Increased commitment to school vision/mission

Increased meaning and understanding of content

Adapting instruction to ALL students

The PLC Thought Process

Before PLCs...

I taught the content well. They should

have understood the material

I have my own methods for teaching,

my own calendar, and my own lesson

plans.

There is not enough time to go

back. We have to keep up with the

calendar.

I do not have time to find another

resource for differentiation.

Using PLCs... Why did this group of students not master

the material? How can I

reteach? Brainstorm ideas with the team.

Working as a team provides rigor

consistency for all of our classes. Our

discussions were easily focused on

effective teaching.

How can I use extra time in class for

remediation or acceleration? Where does

this fit in our lesson plans?

I know Mr. ____ will have one strategy and

Ms. ______ will have another. I'll bring

this idea as well.

Non-Core Classes, Singletons, and the

PLC Model – Why does this matter?

Health and PE teachers:

Used heart rate monitoring to work with students on mental math

calculations and conversions

Started doing a writing assignment once a week after consulting

with English teachers about best practices for implementing

Fine Arts:

Supported reading comprehension in choosing articles,

informational texts, and blogs to go along with their curriculum

The Data Supports the PLC Work

Algebra, Geometry, and Biology have had consistent

increases

Why did this happen?

Other scores have not had the same consistent growth

What can we change to see more consistency?

"I do not have a Milestone. Why does this matter for me?"

Algebra 1 Data

39%

36%

21%

4%

37%

33%

25%

5%

33%31%

27%

12%

22%

31%32%

17%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

Beginning Developing Proficient Distinguished

Percent of Algebra Students by Achievement Level

EOC 2016 EOC 2017 EOC 2018 EOC 2019

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

EOC 2016

EOC 2017

EOC 2018

EOC 2019

Algebra Proficient & Distinguished

Geometry Data

25%

36%

30%

9%

23%

34%33%

10%

23%

32%

37%

12%

20%

24%

33%

21%

0%

5%

10%

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Beginning Developing Proficient Distinguished

Percent of Geometry Students by Achievement Level

EOC 2016 EOC 2017 EOC 2018 EOC 2019

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

EOC 2016

EOC 2017

EOC 2018

EOC 2019

Geometry Proficient & Distinguished

9th ELA Data

16%

35%

40%

9%11%

29%

48%

11%11%

31%

49%

9%10%

25%

45%

20%

0%

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Beginning Developing Proficient Distinguished

Percent of 9th ELA Students by Achievement Level

2016 2017 2018 2019

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

EOC 2016

EOC 2017

EOC 2018

EOC 2019

9th ELA Proficient & Distinguished

Biology Data

Next Steps: What will be your PLC why?

Looking at your PLC Reflection Survey what is one area you know your PLC could focus on this year to achieve our school wide goals?

Reading Comprehension

Writing

Vocabulary

Standard Unpacking

Engagement Strategies (avoid the sit and get)

Inquiry-Based Learning

Increase in Milestones

Write this area of focus on your PLC Reflection Survey

Whip around in 5-8 minutes to share out from each PLC

Ticket out the Door

Turn in your PLC Reflection Survey

before leaving. Thank you!

Deliverables for Next Week:

• Syllabus by PLC

• 1st Week Lesson Plans

• PLC Norms

• PLC Meeting Calendar

• Faculty Handbook

How?

Two main areas of focus

Lesson Planning

Data Talk

Jump in where your team is

Celebrate the small wins

Planning with SMF (Standards Mastery Framework)

Lesson PlansEssentials for Lesson Plans

Standards

Learning Targets

Created by PLC from unpacked standards

Vocabulary

Gradual Release/Agenda

Evidence of Mastery

How do you know what the students know?

Examples

Biology

Algebra 1

9th ELA

Instruction & Student Engagement

Formative Assessment

Time, Support and/or Extension

Summative Assessment

Analyze Student Work

Monitor, Support, Adjust and Extra Time

Data Talk Illuminate Data Talk Protocol

Percent proficient

By teacher

By question

By standard

Most missed questions

DOK levels

Learning targets

Skills need to master question

Adjustments

Remediation, reteach, and/or enrichment

Exposure to rigor

Success of PLC members compared to others

Examples

Algebra

ELA Variation

Item Standard Scale Learning Target DOK Item Type Master ID

1

2

3

4

Illuminate Training

Sign up in edivate (see Curriculum Leader for help registering)

August 2nd August 5th

Where? Banneker or Centennial Feldwood ES or Centennial

Times? 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm 8:30 am – 10:00 am

2:45 pm – 4:15 pm 10:30 am – 12:00 am

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

2:45 pm – 4:15 pm

How can we support you?

PLC leader: Help provide structure, resources, templates, and

make the process their own. Provide a clear agenda of

expectations.

Curriculum leader: Show and explain how to find resources.

Provide meaningful feedback.

Instructional coaches: Thought and brainstorm partner, additional

member of PLC team, provide meaningful feedback, model or co-

teach a new strategy.

Administration: Provide meaningful feedback, communicate

expectations, ensure accountability

Ticket out the Door

Turn in your PLC Reflection Survey

before leaving. Thank you!

Deliverables for Next Week:

• Syllabus by PLC

• 1st Week Lesson Plans

• PLC Norms

• PLC Meeting Calendar

• Faculty Handbook