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OUR BELIEFS:all kids can learn
Consider this question:
What does “all kids can learn” mean to you as an educator?
Write your response on the handout
All Kids Can Learn
1.Create a group of three2.Briefly discuss your thinking in response to:–What does “all kids can learn”
mean to you as an educator?3.Share common threads
All Kids Can Learn
Team Reflection:
• What current practice at your school supports effectively educating students?
• What current practice at your school limits students?
All Kids Can Learn
1.Read “Variations on a Theme: All Kids Can Learn”
2.Record your thoughts in the margins of the handout; circle the number that reflects what is most common at your school now.
All Kids Can Learn
1.Move to the corner associated with the choice you circled.
2.Share your thoughts about the choice with those in your corner.
3.Summarize the essence of your corner’s position.
All Kids Can Learn
School 1: failure = no ability or motivation; not a PLCSchool 2: failure = teach them a lesson (or two) ; not a PLCSchool 3: responsible some growth; not a PLC
School 4: responsible growth, learning; a PLC!
All Kids Can LearnA Tale of Four Schools
What is a PLC?
…A Professional Learning Community is 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…”
Rick DuFour, 2002
DEFINING PLCs
Professional Learning Communities are an ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in
recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the
students they serve.
These are all our children;we will benefit by or pay for
what they become.
James Baldwin
Why What You Think Matters