PLC Vocabulary
A set of rules or guidelines that a team establishes to shape the interaction of its members with one another and with others who are external to the team. They can be developed during an early team meeting, and more can be added as the team deems necessary. Once developed, they are used to help guide the behavior of team members and are used to assess how well team members are interacting. (Heathfield, 2019)
What are norms?
The learning goals for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. They are not a curriculum. Local communities and educators choose their own curriculum, which is a detailed plan for day to day teaching. In other words, this is what students need to know and be able to do, and curriculum is how students will learn it. (corestandards.org)
What are educational standards?
A group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job, or project. They operate with a high degree of interdependence, share authority and responsibility for self-management, are accountable for the collective performance, and work toward a common goal and shared rewards. They become more than just a collection of people when a strong sense of mutual commitment creates synergy, thus generating performance greater than the sum of the performance of its individual members. (businessdictionary.com)
What is a team?
Structure and trackability into your ambitions, efforts and objectives. Instead of vague resolutions, these create verifiable trajectories towards a certain objective, with clear milestones and an estimation of the attainability. (yourcoach.be)
What are SMART goals?
Team-designed, intentional measures used for the purpose of monitoring student attainment of essential learning targets throughout the instructional process. In addition to providing information about which students need additional support or extension, (these) allow teams to examine the effects of their practice, and gain insight as to which instructional strategies yield high levels of learning. Furthermore, the data can be used to provide frequent feedback to students that they can use to adjust their own learning strategies. (Jakicic, 2017)
What are common formative assesments (CFA)?
A multi-tier approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs. This process begins with high-quality instruction and universal screening of all children in the general education classroom. Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their rate of learning. These services may be provided by a variety of personnel, including general education teachers, special educators, and specialists. Progress is closely monitored to assess both the learning rate and level of performance of individual students. (rtinetwork.org)
What is response to intervention (RTI)?
The larger organization and not the individual teams that comprise it. 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. There are three big ideas that drive this work: a focus on learning, a collaborative culture and collective responsibility, a results orientation. (DuFour, et al, 2016)
What is a professional learning community (PLC)?