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Principals receive training on Professional Learning Communities
Principals were trained on Professional Learning Communities this past Saturday, October 17, 2015. Leaders are excited to embrace the model as a best practice.
A professional learning community, or PLC, is a group of educators that meets regularly, shares expertise, and works collaboratively to improve teaching skills and the academic performance of students.
Professional Learning Communities focus on three big ideas.
Big Idea #1: A Focus on Learning (Clarity of Purpose). The purpose of our school/district is to ensure all students learn at relatively high levels.
When a school or district functions as a PLC, educators within the organization embrace high levels of learning for ALL students as BOTH are the reason the organization exists and the fundamental responsibility of those who work within it.
Big Idea #2: A Collaborative Culture with a focus on learning for all (students and adults). Helping all students learn requires a collaborative and collective effort.
- A PLC is composed of collaborative teams whose members work interdependently to achieve common goals for which members are mutually accountable.
- In a PLC, collaboration represents a systematic process in which teachers work together interdependently in order to impact their classroom practice in ways that will lead to better results for their students, for their team, and for their school.
Big Idea #3: A Results Orientation. Efforts must be assessed on the basis of results, rather than intentions (BOTH quantitative and qualitative).
- In order to assess our effectiveness in helping all students learn, we must focus on results—evidence of student learning.
- Use results to inform and improve our professional practice and respond to students who need interventions or enrichment.