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PLC Learning, Support, and Monitoring Overview 18-19
PLC Coach School Assignments 2018-2019
What Is A PLC?
A Big Picture Look at Professional Learning Communities
Critical Issues for Team Consideration
Cultural Shifts in a Professional Learning Community
Supported by Research
After synthesizing over 800 meta-analyses on the factors that impact student achievement, John Hattie concluded that the best way to improve schools was to organize teachers into collaborative teams that clarify what each student must learn and the indicators of learning the team will track, to gather evidence of that learning on an ongoing basis, and to analyze the results together so that they could learn which instructional strategies were working and which were not. In other words, he urged schools to function as Professional Learning Communities. Robert Marzano came to a similar conclusion when he described the PLC concept as “one of the most powerful initiatives for school improvement I have seen in the last decade.” The quality of the individual teacher remains paramount in student learning, and the PLC concept is our best strategy for creating the system that ensures more good teaching in more classrooms more of the time.
(R. DuFour, Professional Learning Communities: The Key to Improved Teaching and Learning)
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