focus on learning, build a collaborative culture,and focus on results
What are the 3 big ideas of a PLC?
100
Educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.
What is a professional learning community (PLC)?
100
Measurable milestones that can be used to assess progress in advancing toward a vision.
What is a goal?
100
Goals that are strategic and specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and timebound.
What is a SMART goal?
100
Positive inferences teachers make about the future academic achievement of their students based on what they know about their students.
What are high expectations?
200
What do we want students to learn?
How will we know when they know it?
How will we respond when they don't learn?
How will we respond when they already know it?
What are the four critical questions?
200
The assumptions, beliefs, values, and habits that constitute the norm for the school and guide the work of the educators within it.
What is school culture?
200
An assessment for learning used to advance and not merely monitor each student's learning.
What is formative assessment?
200
Collective commitments developed by each team to guide members in working together.
What are team norms?
200
"Developing the collective ability - dispositions, skills, knowledge, motivation, and resources - to act together to bring about positive change."
What is capacity building?
300
Educators working together interdependently to achieve common goals for which they are mutually accountable.
What is a collaborative team?
300
Not content with the status quo, members of a PLC constantly seek better ways to achieve mutual goals and accomplish their fundamental purpose of learning for all.
What is commitment to continuous improvement?
300
The disconnect between knowledge and action.
What is the knowing-doing gap?
300
The ability to organize and execute one's time around priorities?
What is time management?
300
A realistic, credible, attractive future for an organization.
What is vision?
400
Relentlessly questioning the status quo, seeking new methods of teaching and learning, testing the methods, and reflecting on the results.
What is collective inquiry?
400
Educators in a PLC are hungry for evidence of student learning and use that evidence to inform and improve their practice.
What is results orientation?
400
The acquisition of new knowledge or skills through ongoing action and perpetual curiosity.
What is learning?
400
The specific attitudes, behaviors, and collective commitments that must be demonstrated in order to advance the organization's vision.
What are values?
400
An assessment of learning designed to provide a final measure to determine if learning goals have been met.
What is a summative assessment?
500
Turning learning and insights into action.
What is action orientation and experimentation?
500
Gives students access to the same essential learning regardless of who is teaching the class and can be taught in the time allotted.
What is a guaranteed and viable curriculum?
500
The fundamental purpose of an organization.
What is mission?
500
An assessment typically created collaboratively by a team of teachers responsible for the same grade level or course.
What is common formative assessment?
500
A schoolwide plan that ensures every student in every course or grade level will receive additional time and support for learning as soon as he or she experiences difficulty in acquiring essential knowledge and skills.