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Building a PLC Dream Team

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Session Goals

• To compare personal views of PLC work to other points of view

• To explore how PRiSSM resources can enhance PLC work

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Connections

• Group norms help us to explore working collaboratively

• This session helps us focus on “what is the right work”

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When you work with your PLC this fall, you will need to think

about how you grow agreement on what is your work.

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Dream Team: Formative Assessment

Why do this, this way?1. Participants

– To clarify ideas about my thinking at this point in time (make a prediction)

2. Leaders– To understand and build on individual and group

thinking3. To keep a record of changes in thinking

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Making Connections

• Individually

• As a Team

• Project Wide

• Regionally

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Compare Your Personal Ideas to the rest of your table

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Imagine Your PLC dream team …

In your learning journal, reflect on…• What is the right work?• How do know?• What does your team value?• What are you hoping to accomplish?• How are you supported? • How do you tell your story?

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As a team agree on five or six critical “features” of your work

as a dream team

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Compare Your Ideas to Other Teams

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Comparing Your Ideas to Other Teams

Go on a scouting mission, each team member going to a different table to look at a poster:

1. Find one thing that you want to add or change on your PLC poster

2. Identify the things that your poster has in common with others

Note your findings in Learning Journals• Return to your group and share out

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Comparing Your Ideas to Steering Committee’s Dream

TeamRead Imagine a School in which….

1. Identify what you want to add or change to your PLC poster

2. Identify the things that your poster has in common with the program goals

Note your changes on your poster

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How Does our Thinking Compare to a Regional (NWREL) View of

PLC work?

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Features of Effective PLCsfrom NWERL Implementation Rubric

• Support of school organization and leadership• PLC use of student and other data to promote

student learning• How PLC Shares/Reflects on classroom practice

(dialogue/protocols)• Use of research• Implementation of research based classroom

practice• Nature of collaboration and team work

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What to do when looking at Implementation Rubric?

Look through the NWREL rubric (one person per page…)

1. Identify what you want to add or change on your poster

2. Identify the things that your poster has in common

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How do we grow agreement about doing the right work amongst all members of

our PLC?

What resources do we have to support us?

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This grant provides an opportunity to work as a team to

design your own professional development.

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This year you have the opportunity to discover and

demonstrate the power of this type of professional development.

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Guidelines for the Work• 80 hours professional development per

teacher minimum (100 hours for lead teachers)

• Work in collaborative groups• Utilize data to inform decision making• Develop teachers’ content and pedagogy

knowledge • To access outside expertise (coursework)

to improve teaching and learning

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Starting Structure for 80 Hours

• 27-36 hours PLC meetings• PLC related work

– Research– Implementation prep– Data analysis– Classroom observations

• Coursework

• Showcase

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The Structure is Flexible

Choices made need to be justified

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DAY 3We will be making a preliminary

plan for your 80 hoursThink about responsible use of

Time resources funds