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 a Professional Learning Community or PLC?
100
Focus on (1) Learning
(2) Collaboration
(3) Results
What is "The Three Big Ideas" according to a PLC?
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 from the top
What is the principal?
100
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
Measuralbe
Attainable
Results-oriented
Timebound
What are "Smart Goals?"
200
Perceived as achievable by those who set them.
What are "Attainable Goals?"
200
working interdependtly to achieve a common goal
What is a "Team?"
200
end results when the shift in the traditional leadship role moves from leader-oriented (top-down) to shared leadership.
What is a "Successful PLC?"
300
The fundamental purpose of an organization.
What is a "Mission?"
300
Designed to provide a final measure to determine if learning goals have been met.
What is a "Summative Assessment?"
300
Learning that uses the same instrument or a common process utilizing the same criteria for determining the quality of student work.
What is a "Common Assessment?"
300
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?"
300
Collective commitments developed by each team to guide members in working together.
What are "Team Norms?"
400
A key structure and process tht must be in place for PLC's to be effective.
What are "Common Planning Periods?"
400
The disconnect between knowledge and action
What is the "Knowing-Doing Gap?"
400
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?"
400
This is achieved when (1) all points of view have been heard and (2) the will of the group is evident even tothose who most oppose it.
What is "Consensus?"
500
An assessment typically created by collaboratively by a team of teachers responsible for the same grade level or course. These are used throughout the year to identify areas of need and focus of future instruction.
What is a "Common Formative Assessment?"
500
Learning together. When members of PLCs are called upon to resolve an issue or make a decision, they consistently attempt to learn together by clarifying questions and accessing the same information and knowledge base.
What is "Building Shared Knowledge?"
500
Data that represents facts or figures that, standing along, will not inform practice or lead to informed decisions
versus data that is transformed putting data in context, and typially requires a basis for comparison.
What is "Data versus Information?"
500
Dialogue in which, "the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions runs strong."
What is "Crucial Conversation?"
500
On hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drive, what kind of house I lived in, how much money was in my bank account, or what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a better place because I was important in the life of a child.