a collaboration of teachers, administrators, parents, and students, who work together to seek out best practices, test them in the classroom, continuously improve processes, and focus
on results.
What is Professional Learning Community or PLC
100
Focus on Learning; Collaboration and Results
What is Three Big Ideas
100
In this setting....if the teacher pushes on with new concepts, the struggling students will fall farther behind
What is Traditional schools practices
100
they should lead from the center rather than the top
What is the Principal
100
realistic, credible, attractive future for an organization
What is the Campus Vision
200
intended to inspire, to capture the imagination of people within the organization, to stimulate creativity and innovation, and to serve as a unifying focal point of
effort
What are Stretch goals.
200
February 23-25, 2011
Phoenix Convention Center
100 North Third Street
Phoenix, AZ
What is the Professional Learning Communities at Work⢠Summit: New Insights for Improving Schools
200
considered the engine of a Professional Learning Community
What are Collaborative teams
200
A focus on outcomes rather than inputs or intentions; hungry for evidence that their efforts are producing the intended outcomes.
What is results /data orientation
200
Strategic & Specific, Measurable, Attainable Results-oriented, and Timebound
What are SMART goals
300
quickly identifies students who need additional time and support; provides students with help as soon as they experience difficulty; students to devote extra time and receive additional assistance until they have mastered the necessary concepts
What is The systematic, timely, and directive intervention program
300
Perceived as achievable by those who set them.
What are attainable goals
300
working interdependently to achieve a common goal
What is team
300
end results when the shift in the traditional leadership role moves from leader-centered (top-down) to shared leadership
What is Successful PLCs
300
The fundamental purpose of an organization
What is Mission.
400
designed to provide a final measure to determine if learning goals have been met
What is a Summative assessment
400
Learning that uses the same instrument or a
common process utilizing the same criteria for determining the quality of student work.
What is Common assessment
400
an abundance of data that do nothing to inform practice because they are not presented in context through the use of relevant comparisons
What is the DRIP syndrome
400
A systematic 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
What is pyramid of interventions
400
collective commitments developed by each team to guide
members in working together
What are Team norms
500
a Key sturcture and processes that must be in place for PLC's to be effective.
What are Common Planning Periods
500
November 15-16, 2010
Sheraton Dallas North
What is Building Common Assessments 2-Day Workshop
500
The disconnect between knowledge and action
What is the knowing-doing gap
500
sharing diverse ideas and making compromises so that all people are satisfied with the direction in which the school is moving
What is "Top-down and bottom-up process"
500
One Hundred Years from now
It will not matter
what kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
how much money was in my bank account
nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a better place because
I was important in the life of a child.