How to start, how to clean upJuly 30, 2013

*Effective PLCs

*Background Information

*Who I am*My experiences with PLCs*Seven years, five at Lakeview as an

administrator*A backwards journey, will share today

*Credibility?

*My School

*Caveats

*Not an expert*Rely heavily on resources, will share today*Answers will vary, depending on your school and situation--Culture

*1st things 1st

*Why PLCs?*Improve Student Performance*How?*Two heads are better than one

*Definition

*National Staff Development Council (A5)*http://www.aypf.org/documents/62609NSDC

DefinitionofProfessionalDevelopment908.pdf*Resource: the Professional Learning

Association*www.learningforward.org*Note the change: “Professional

Development” to “Professional Learning”*On Common Ground edited by DuFour,

Eaker, and DuFour

*Walk the Talk

*We say we want students to be “Life-Long Learners;” are we willing to do that ourselves?*Don’t care if you’re a rookie just out of

school; don’t care if you’re retiring this year;*Life is about learning.

*Nuts and Bolts

*First, Time*“Job Embedded” Learning Communities*It has to happen during contract time.*Yes, there’s a sacrifice in student learning

time, but the trade off is professional, collegial discussions.

*Time

*You have to sell this point:*To your teachers,*We do not work in the one room school house

any more.*To your community,*To your board.

*The Art of Focused Conversations by Nelson

*Public Relations

*It is a sacrifice of one thing, but on a scale, the benefits have the potential to outweigh the drawbacks.*http://www.lakeview2167.com/domain/173*For us, early outs about every other week.

*Once you have the time,

*You own the expectations.*District has a right to assign.*For Lakeview, PLCs became

nonnegotiable.*“We are doing PLCs. The academic research

says they are the way to go.”*You get out of it what you put into it.*Our question: Do you want to explore a little

extra compensation for it? Q-comp.

*Job Embedded Part 2

*The professional conversations need to be about the work.*No water cooler talk.*What’s going to be most useful:* In regards to student achievement:* Essential Outcomes (3rd)* Formative Assessments (2nd)* Instructional Strategies (1st)* Summative Assessments (4th)* Technology (5th)

*Next: Structure

*What to do during this time?*How do you make the time productive?*Learning by Doing by DuFour, DuFour,

Eaker, and Many*PLC Leaders (Leading by Design by Erkens

and Twadell)*and Norms and…

*Protocols: A Necessary Evil

*Based ours on Annenberg Protocol for Sharing Student Work.*Time allocations for meetings.*Calendar layout for the whole year, not

just meeting to meeting.*Roles: rotate facilitation, timekeeping,

note taking, sustenance

*Expectations

*PLCs are what we do.*They are nonnegotiable.*Be an active, productive participant, or

look for another place of employment.*Train PLC Leaders in addressing behaviors:*How to Deal with Difficult People-*What a PLC is not:*http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0c6mH4eEs

*Follow Up

*Check in with your PLCs every time.*Make the rounds.*Be available.*Mix it up; sit in on them.*Be an active, productive participant.*Know the pulse.

*PLC Leaders

*Continuous Meetings*Week before early outs*Book Study*Learning by Doing*Common Formative Assessments by

Ainsworth and Viegut*Leading by Design*21st Century Skills by Trilling and Fadel

*Our Journey and Resources

*Instructional Strategies*Best Practice by Zemelman, Daniels, and

Hyde

*What are we Instructing On?

*Formative Assessments*Checking for Understanding by Fisher and

Frey*Advancing Formative Assessment in Every

Classroom by Moss and Brookhart*What Teachers Really Need to Know about

Formative Assessment by Greenstein

*Differentiation

*Blended*Differentiated Instructional Strategies by

Gregory and Chapman*Total Participation Techniques by Himmele

and Himmele*Leading and Managing a Differentiated

Classroom by Tomlinson and Imbeau*Professional Development for

Differentiating Instruction by Strickland

*Can we do it all?

*Essential Outcomes*Power Standards by Ainsworth*Learning Targets by Moss and Brookhart*Designing & Teaching Learning Goals &

Objectives by Marzano*Essential Questions by McTighe and Wiggins

*Next Steps

*Technology (1 to 1 devices)*Curriculum 21 by Hayes Jacobs*Partnership for 21st Century Skills*www.p21.org

*Other Considerations

*Developing Standards Based Report Cards by Guskey and Bailey*Becoming a Reflective Teacher by

Marzano

*Questions?

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvO9e_hOzw4&feature=player_embedded#

*My Contact Information

*Phil Lienemann*K-12 Principal*Lakeview Public Schools*Cottonwood MN

*phillienemann@lakeview2167.com