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 interdependently 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
Multiple schools and communities that are tied together within a single authority.
What is a "system"?
300
Essential for effective teaching; however, it must be balanced with direction, coordination, and accountability.
What is "autonomy"?
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?"
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
Without this, even the best leadership ideas will fail and the most ideal research based initiatives will fail.
What is "focus"?
400
This is achieved when (1) all points of view have been heard and (2) the will of the group is evident even to those 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
The outcome of teachers working with their colleagues and committing to one another that they will address certain key skills and concepts within a given unit, thus creating positive peer pressure to commit to a task.
What is "guaranteed implemented curriculum"?
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.