Professional Learning Communities
On this page, you can access resources to support the development of professional learning communities as well as the facilitation of effective team meetings. Below you will find a title and a brief description of each resource, along with links to these specific resources.
At the bottom of the page, you can access the complete Professional Learning Communities (PLC) Resource spreadsheet. This spreadsheet has been organized to help you easily search for and locate resources.
Resources for Professional Learning Communities
Introduction to the Wisconsin PLC Fidelity Rubric
This presentation provides an overview to the foundations and administration of the PLC Fidelity Rubric and the process utilized by RPIC teams to complete this task in the fall and spring of each grant year. This presentation introduces the four alternate PLC questions for inclusive learning communities.
Key Word(s): Collaboration, Evidence, Learning
Team Meeting Warm Up/Connection Activities
A foundational piece of coaching is building trust and relationships. This collection of relationship/team building activities was created by coaches and is intended for coaches. The repository is a one-stop-shop of easily accessible activities designed to strengthen connections within teams. Team building brings people together while encouraging collaboration. Building relationships is critical to the process of creating and maintaining teams that works cohesively and effectively. Spending time making connections and building trust is an essential component of high functioning teams. This resource was created by members of the RPIC Synchronous Workgroup (2020-2021).
Key Word(s): Collaboration, Team, Learning
This assessment is adapted from the Professional Learning Communities at Work Continuum. It is used to assess the current reality of PLC implementation. Individual school team members, internal district coaches, and the school team as a whole complete the survey in the fall and spring.
Reports generated from the results help teams recognize important indicators, gauge progress on important systems change issues, and celebrate growth in targeted areas. The individual team member and school team results are communicated by DPI to the district team to be forwarded to the school staff. Coach results are for the use of the DPI grant staff only.
Key Word(s): Implementation, Evidence, Reality
Effective Team Meeting Practice Profile
This practice profile from the DPI outlines components of effective team meetings along with examples of practitioner behaviors for expected, developmental, and unacceptable use in practice. This profile aims to provide educators and leaders with guidance as they plan for and reflect upon team meetings.
Key Word(s): Transformation, Component, Description
The Four Alternate PLC Questions
These alternate questions shift the paradigm to better align with what will occur in an Inclusive Learning Community environment. In addition to reframing the questions to align with inclusive practices, it encourages us to think beyond academic standards to support learners to develop social-emotional skills, functional skills, and multiple ways to work alone and together. (These two slides were extracted from the Introduction to the WI PLC Fidelity Rubric presentation.)
Key Word(s): Substitute, Reframe, Inclusive
Team Rolling Agenda/Minutes Template
This meeting template was shared in the RPIC Guidance Document (see Appendix E) for teams to utilize to record meeting notes. If you choose to use a different template, please include all elements in this template. This link will force a copy.
Key Word(s): Communication, Linked, Notes
At this link, coaches can find the Solution Tree mini-course offerings. Grant requirements include completion of the following three mini-courses: Learning by Doing, Transforming School Culture, and Embedded Formative Assessments.
Key Word(s): Professional Development, Videos, Quizzes
Communication Plan Template (NIRN)
This template from NIRN (National Implementation Research Network) outlines how to construct a carefully crafted communication plan for sharing information with staff, families, students, and other various stakeholders.
Key Word(s): Communication, Linked Teams
