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Technical Assistance for Schools on Corrective Action and Restructuring Session 2: December 15 & 16, 2008 Presented by Erin Sullivan & Gail Varney Title I School lmprovement Coordinators. Welcome!. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Welcome!
Technical Assistance for Schools on Corrective Action and Restructuring
Session 2: December 15 & 16, 2008
Presented by Erin Sullivan & Gail VarneyTitle I School lmprovement Coordinators
“The use of professional learning communities is the best, least expensive, most professionally rewarding way to improve schools such communities hold out immense, unprecedented hope for schools and the improvement of teaching.” Mike Schmoker
What are the Essential
Characteristics of a PLC?
#1Shared Mission,
Vision, Collective Commitments,
and Goals
#2Collaborative Teams
Focused on
Learning
#3Collective Inquiry into the Current
Reality of the School and Best School Practices
#4An Action Orientation
#5A Commitment to
Continuous Improvement
#6A Focus
on Results
Activity:Think/Pair/Share Your
Definition of a PLC.
What Cultural Shifts Take Place in a
PLC?
“Probably the most important – and the most difficult – job of the school-based reformer is to change the prevailing culture of a school ultimately, a school’s culture has far more influence on life and learning in the schoolhouse than the state department of education, the superintendent, the school board, or even the principal can ever have.”
Roland Barth
From a Focus onTeaching...
to a Focus onLearning
From Working in Isolation...
to Working Collaboratively
From External Professional
Development...
to Job-Embedded Learning
From Focusing on Activities...
to Focusing on Results
From Fixed Time...
to Flexible Time
From Average Learning...
to Individual Learning
From Punitive...
to Positive
From “Teacher Tell/Student Listen...”
to “Teacher Coach/Student Practice”
From Recognizing the Elite...
to Creating Opportunity for Many Learners
Why Professional Learning
Communities to SupportSchool Improvement?
Do you see a benefit in a school wide focus on what you expect students to learn?
Would effective assessment – knowing when students have learned and when they haven’t and intervening to help individual students - improve achievement?
Do you think collaboration would increase accountability?
The framework of a PLC is inextricably linked to the effective integration of standards, assessment, and accountability.
(Reeves, 2005)
Will school improvement be supported by teachers actively involved in ongoing, professional learning and application of proven strategies?
Well-implemented PLCs are a powerful means of seamlessly blending teaching and professional learning in ways that produce complex, intelligent behavior in all teachers.
(Sparks, 2005)
A Professional Learning Community is a
FRAMEWORK in Which a School Can Focus on
School Improvement