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Professional Learning Communities VASSP Conference Roundtable 2015

Professional Learning Communities VASSP Conference Roundtable 2015. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius. Closing the KNOWING – DOING gap. As a school we need to embrace LEARNING rather than teaching as the fundamental purpose of our school.

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Professional Learning Communities VASSP Conference Roundtable 2015

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  1. Professional Learning Communities VASSP Conference Roundtable 2015

  2. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.Confucius Closing the KNOWING – DOING gap

  3. As a school we need to embrace LEARNING rather than teaching as the fundamental purpose of our school Fundamental Purpose

  4. Don’t call upon others to improve your school. Accept responsibility for doing it yourself! • Remember you express what you value by what you do - not by what you say.

  5. What is a Professional Learning Community?An ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. DuFour

  6. The purpose of our school is to ensure that all students learn at a high level. • Helping students learn requires a collaborative and collective effort. • To assess our effectiveness in helping students learn we must focus on results - evidence of student learning - and use results to inform and improve our professional practice and to respond to students who need intervention or enrichment. Big Ideas that Drive the Work of a PLC

  7. 1. Collaborative Culture with a Focus on Learning for ALL - PLC’s are composed of collaborative teams whose members work interdependently 2. CollectiveInquiry into best practice and current reality - PLC Teams learn together to develop new skills and capabilities that lead to new experiences and awareness. - Collective Inquiry serves as a catalyst for action

  8. 3. Action Oriented: “Learning by Doing” - PLC’s recognize that unless members “do” differently, there is no reason to anticipate different results 4. Commitment to Continuous Improvement - The goal is to create conditions for perpetual learning through innovation and experimentation.4. 5. Results Oriented: - PLC success is based on results, not intentions

  9. What is it we want our students to learn? – Curriculum and Learning Outcomes • How will we know if each student has learned it? – Common Formative Assessments • How will we respond when some students do not learn it? – Analysis and Intervention • How can we extend and enrich the learning for students who have demonstrated proficiency? Four Questions that Drive PLC Work

  10. Pre-Initiating • Initiation • Implementation • Developing • Sustaining The PLC Continuum Where we are…..

  11. Move quickly to action. • Build shared knowledge. • Use the foundation to assist in day to day decisions. • Use the foundation to identify existing practice that should be eliminated. • Translate the vision of your school into a teachable point of view. • Write value statements as behaviors rather than beliefs. • Focus on yourself rather than others. • Recognize the process is nonlinear. • It is what you DO that matters, not what you call it. Building the Foundation Moving Forward

  12. How are teams within PLC’s organized? • How do the Effective School Correlates fit with PLC’s? • Who will monitor PLC discussions? • How will PLC capacity be fostered? • Why PLC’s? Questions

  13. Highly successful schools practice most PLC elements to a high degree, particularly those related to team meeting, assessments and analyzing data regularly. Which aspects of PLCs does your school or district consistently practice? High Impact Low/No Impact Impact

  14. THMS 5 Year SOL Data Trend

  15. 2 years ago – Introduced the concept of PLC’s • Teams Establish Norms • Establish Expectations • Common Agenda – Google Doc • Benchmark Data Analysis Worksheet • Book Study – Learning by Doing – DuFour • Cultural Shift • Continuous Assessment and Reflection • Where do we go from here? • Resources Our Journey

  16. http://www.centerforcsri.org/plc/literature.html • http://annenberginstitute.org/pdf/proflearning.pdf • http://www.breakthroughcollaborative.org/sites/default/files/May%202012%20PLC%20research%20brief.pdf • http://web.stanford.edu/group/suse-crc/cgi-bin/drupal/sites/default/files/PLC-chapter-Talbert-2010.pdf Research on PLC’s

  17. “Wisdoms” from our Administrative Retreat “Curricular and Assessment decisions made closest to the students have the greatest impact on student learning” “Developing PLC’s takes time”

  18. “Beware of plans that call for study, training, discussions, or anything less than specific action to advance your school.”DuFour

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