PLC Basics
A Focus on Learning, Culture of Collaboration, and Focus on Results
What are the three Big Ideas of a PLC?
These are the standards that make up the bulk of curriculum in English-language arts and Math.
What are the NYS Next Generation Learning Standards?
This is considered a final assessment. It provides evidence of student achievement for the purpose of making a judgment about student competence or program effectiveness (autopsies).
What is a summative assessment?
This provides additional time and support for students to meet grade-level standards.
What is Tier 2 instruction?
Our ESM mascot is called this.
What are Spartans?
Collective commitments developed by each team to guide members in working together.
What are Team Norms?
This outlines the most important learning goals for students during the course of the year
What are prioritized, essential learning standards?
These are the NYS Assessments used for accountability measures.
What are the 3-8 New York State ELA and Math assessments and Regents Testing?
High-quality, grade-level, classroom instruction for all students in the general education classroom setting.
What is Tier 1?
The number one thing that guides all we do at ESM.
What is our Strategic Plan ?
The four critical questions of Learning to guide all PLCs.
What do we want students to know, do, and understand? How will we know when they have learned it? How will we respond when they don't learn? How will we respond when they already know it?
Alignment between grade levels is called this.
What is vertical alignment?
These assessments are typically administered three times a year.
What are benchmark assessments or universal screeners?
Stating what we want students to know, do and understand is typically called this.
What is an objective or learning target?
Our leadership team for our Strategic Plan.
What is SALT?
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-Oriented, Time-Bound
What is a SMART goal?
Alignment must occur between these three categories.
What is Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment?
A team-developed instrument utilizing the same criteria to measure student learning. Formal and informal processes teachers and students use to gather evidence for the purpose of improving learning (medical check-ups).
What is a Common Formative Assessment?
Data collected for students who need closer monitoring to determine the effectiveness of instruction or an intervention.
What is progress monitoring?
The number of focus areas in our strategic plan.
What is 5?
A process by which members of a team work interdependently to achieve a common goal and ensure that decisions made collectively are carried out independently - considered the engine of a Professional Learning Community
What is Collaboration?
In Atlas, this portion of the Learning Window identifies enduring and debatable questions.
What are Essential Questions?
Selected response, written response, performance assessment, projects, direct personal interaction, etc.
What are the different types of assessment?
This is what we do when students don't learn.
What is Response to Intervention?
Our new Assistant Principal at the HS this year
Who is Antwaun Dixon?