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What is a PLC?
A PLC is a group that works collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. In the instructional world, the tasks include the ongoing, cyclical process of analyzing data, setting goals, learning individually & collaboratively, implementing new learning, monitoring, assessing, and then adjusting instruction.
In the classroom, we know how those components work when applied to teaching content. It takes a different form when we connect those pieces to the postsecondary process and student support services.
What is a Postsecondary PLC?
Postsecondary PLCs determine how to deliver instructional and responsive services. It’s looking at student intent data and lining up services to support students in completing postsecondary tasks. In some cases it may mean communication to all parents and students; it may be planning small group support sessions; it may be 1:1 meetings. But a responsive postsecondary PLC will have a plan to meet the postsecondary needs of its students, a system of progress monitoring to follow up, and elements of case management to match the right level of support with the student’s zone of proximal development.
The Bigger Picture
Are PLCs just about test scores? Listen to what Mike Mattos from Solution Tree has to say about the broader goal of education.
View this through the lens of our postsecondary work. Are we asking the right questions?
How do we build successful schools? How do we prepare students for enrollment, enlistment, and employment? How do we set our students up for endless possibilities?
When we say “collaboration” we mean:
Deciding how we will staff drop-in services
Deciding how we will divide up one-on-one support
Deciding how to utilize community partners
Deciding what our common solutions will be
Who handles what?
How do we answer common questions?
Deciding on communication strategies and content
When we say “learning” we mean:
Helping students complete the parts of the postsecondary application and entry process
Delivering postsecondary access education to ALL students?
When we say “results” we mean:
All student needs have a pathway to resolution
All emails answered
Postsecondary Intent data on all students
Career plan completion (8th and 10th)
Event attendance (FAFSA night, College Fair, etc)
Cyclical data review of:
FAFSA completion statistics
On-Track percentage
Enrollment, Enlistment, & Employment data
Tracking steps to completion
Resolution for the “undecided” student
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