Professional Learning Communities

District 62 has been a Professional Learning Community district since 2005.

A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a group of educators who collaboratively participate in an ongoing process to improve student achievement and instructional practices by reviewing student data and student work.

A PLC must consistently ask the following four essential questions:

What do we expect our student to learn?

How will we know they are learning?

What will we do if they are not learning?

What will we do if they have already learned?

PLC Continuum Rubric

Evaluating Your PLC

Use this rubric to evaluate the effectiveness of your PLC whether it is a department or grade level based team.

Utilizing Protocols

Implementing protocols is a strategic and effective way to strengthen PLCs. To the right are two protocols: the District 62 Data Retreat protocol folder, as well as a protocol tool from Learning Forward.

Power_of_Protocols.pdf

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