PLC's 3 Big Ideas
Micheal Jordan is a part of one; Tiger Woods is not.
What is a Team?
The first question, "What do we want students to learn?" is connected to which of the Big Ideas?
What is Focus on Learning?
What PLC stands for.
What is Professional Learning Communities?
Cells in your brain.
What are neurons?
The staff members who have birthdays in September.
Who are Danica, Sindy, Kelly, Martha and Emily?
We know that individual heroic teachers cannot make a great school. Instead we need this.
What is Collaborative Culture?
The second question, "How do we know if they learned it?" relates to this Big Idea.
What is Focus on Results?
Often teacher's meet to Coordinate, instead of this hallmark of a PLC.
What is Collaborate?
A layer of cells that grows on the outside of neurons.
What is the Mylein Sheath?
OCASA is filled with this according to our mission statement.
What is joy?
This concept - A group of people working interdependently to achieve a common goal for which they are mutually accountable - is critical to this Big Idea.
What is Collaborative Culture?
To answer the first question, "What do we want students to learn?", the team has to create these.
What are Learning Targets?
In one of the videos, Rick Dufour points out that of the popular films based on true stories of "Hero" teachers, one had a heart attack and the others did this.
What is left the profession before 5 years?
The point where neurons connect.
What are synapses?
At our pre-launch, we identified that our goal is improve student achievement by this percentage.
What is 20%?
This should be the focus of all that we do; however, traditionally we Focus on Teaching.
What is Learning?
To answer the second question, "What do we want students to learn?", we have to create these.
What are Common, Formative Assessments?
What is a lifeguard?
Like the branches of a tree.
What are Dendrites?
Our Summit Focus Area that is described as follows: Students develop intellectually and personally through engagement with skills, habits, and content in challenging, developmentally appropriate ways.
What is Rigor?
The idea we focus on a measurable impact on student learning.
What is Focus on Results?
This one of the last two questions relates to what are traditionally called Interventions.
What is "What do we do if students did not learn it"?
Rick DuFour emphasized strongly that teachers working independently does not make a good school. the school must have an effective this.
What is the system?
Dendrites grow from this type of experience.
What is stimulating?
Our Summit Focus Area that is described as follows:Students work with effort and energy to accomplish goals that connect to a meaningful purpose, and they are aware at all times of their progress toward achieving these goals
What is Purposefulness?