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Duncanville ISD Professional Development Department values and provides professional support to campuses in the development of high-functioning teams focused on empowering educators to raise student achievement. All educators in Duncanville should belong to a team (ideally like content) who regularly collaborate to focus on learning, studying, and planning for instruction, sharing effective strategies, and focusing on results.
Because of our commitment to teaching and learning, our PLC teams focus on the four essential questions:
What do we want our students to know and do (as a result of the unit, course, etc.)
How will we know if they have learned it? (monitoring learning on a timely basis)
What will we do if they don’t learn? (systematic process for additional time and support when students experience difficulty)
What will we do if they already know it? (enrichment)
PLC District Expectations:
Grade-level and/or content area teams will be organized into collaborative teams that meet consistently throughout the school year (in general, at least once per week).
Each team will use the DISD curriculum guides for instructional planning. Teams discuss in depth what students are expected to know, understand, and do as they develop instructional plans.
Each team will identify their ‘essential’ standards and develop SMART goals for improvement.
Each team will develop shared norms, roles, and responsibilities.
Campus administrators will regularly attend and support the work of the PLC teams.
District representatives from the C&I Department regularly visit PLC groups to guide the work.
PLC agendas must:
Be provided to all team members at least a day in advance.
State goals or expected outcomes.
Include specific topics for discussion with estimated times listed.
Include norms agreed upon by team
Allow for minutes to be recorded during the PLC and emailed to team and administrator within two days.
Common formative assessments are designed, utilized, and analyzed to assess student progress and student equity across the campus. Teams are expected to meet within 2-5 days after an assessment to analyze results (by class, by TEKS, by student group). Teachers individually analyze their class data and them come together to compare and determine the cause and response to varying performances among the team. The team develops plans to reteach and reassess, then follows up to review the next level of results. Data Analysis is a continuous process that occurs regularly throughout the year.
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