PLCs & Teaming Structures

Portland Public Schools: PLC Implementation Card

Created by MTSS and presented at May PPS Leadership Session

Four Questions to Guide PLCs (Eaker & Keating, 2012)

Presented for PPS Leadership at the April MTSS Training

Portland Public Schools: PLC Data Protocol

Created by MTSS and presented at May PPS Leadership Session

Portland Public Schools: PLC Common Assessment Worksheet

Created by MTSS and presented at May PPS Leadership Session

PLC Questions That Support Teacher Clarity

Created by PPS School Improvement to combine the work of MTSS and The Teacher Clarity Playbook (Fischer et al., 2019).

Crosswalk of Key Terms

Created by PPS School Improvement to for use with the PPS GVC and The Teacher Clarity Playbook (Fischer et al., 2019).

The Five Habits of Effective PLCs

By Lois Brown Easton

Habits serve educators as signposts of progress toward achieving their desires. They are interim indicators of a professional learning community’s success.

The Evolution of a Professional Learning Community

By Shirley M. Hord

A true professional learning community is a way of organizing the educational staff to engage in purposeful, collegial learning.

What is a PLC?

By Richard DuFour

What are the “big ideas” that represent the core principles of PLCs?

Rating Your Teacher Teams

By Vivian Troen and Katherine C. Boles

Five conditions are identified for effective teams to accomplish the higher-level goal of improving teaching and learning.

Looking Collaboratively at Student Work: An Essential Toolkit

By Kathleen Cushman

Looking closely together at student work can unveil a treasure trove of insights to guide school communities

Teachers Learn from Looking Together at Student Work

By Diane Weaver Dunne

School reformers say the way to improve education and accountability is by improving the way teachers and students look at student work.