collaborative culture

Collaborative Culture is working to ensure all voices are heard, using processes to accomplish PLC goals, and cultivating and monitoring trust to hold each other accountable as a team.

"THE PURPOSE OF COLLABORATION -- TO HELP MORE STUDENTS ACHIEVE AT HIGHER LEVELS -- CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED IF THE PROFESSIONAL ENGAGED IN COLLABORATION ARE FOCUSED ON THE RIGHT WORK." ~ LEARNING BY DOING

PLC COLLABORATIVE CULTURE - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

The fact that teachers are collaborating will do nothing to improve student learning if they are not asking the right questions and engaged in the right work. What is the right work?

Asking the four PLC questions are the right questions leading to the right work:

What is it we want our students to know and be able to do?
How will we know if each student has learned it?
How will we respond when some students do not learn it?
How will we extend the learning for students who have demonstrated they already know it?

"Are you engaged in collaboration or 'co-blaboration'?"

~ Learning by Doing

"If teachers are to work collaboratively to clarify the essential learning for their courses and grade levels, write common assessments, and jointly analyze the results, they must overcome the fear that they may be exposed to their colleagues and principals as ineffective.

~ Learning by Doing

Framework for Meeting the Needs of ALL Students

Framework for meeting the needs of all students

Following the framework to the left provides PLCs the starting point for PLC collaboration. Beginning with the star - the first step is ensuring all members of the PLC have clarity on priority standards, on instructional practices, and common assessments.

PLCs must work together to achieve the common goals established. A PLC can only be strong if its members work together to share ideas, review student work, observe and learn new instructional practices, and monitor student learning.

"The very reason any organization is established is to bring people together in an organized way to achieve a collective purpose that cannot be accomplished by working alone".

~ Learning by Doing

plc learning continuum: collaborative culture hyper rubric and resources

Use the Google Doc to determine current reality for engaging in continuous improvement. Used in conjunction with the framework for meeting the needs of all students, each PLC can determine how to move to the far right of the continuum.

Collaborative Culture

" A collection of teachers does not truly become a team until members must rely on one another to accomplish a goal that none could achieve individually."

~ Learning by Doing

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