2. What are the 4
Questions of PLCs?
1. What do we want students to learn?
2. How do we know students have
learned it?
3. What do we do when students don’t
learn it?
4. What do we do when students learned
it/already know it?
4. “In a PLC, collaboration
represents a systematic process
in which teachers work together
interdependently in order to
IMPACT THEIR CLASSROOM
PRACTICE in ways that will lead
to better results for their
students, for their team, and for
their school.”
--Rick DuFour
5. PLC Foundations
1. Shared mission, vision, values, goals
2. Collective inquiry into best practices and
current reality
3. Collaborative teams
4. Action oriented: Learning by Doing
5. Commitment to continuous improvement
6. Results oriented (evidence of student learning)
6. 4 Cs of PLC
1. Collaboration
2. Common Assessments
3. Common Instructional Practices
4. Collective Prevention/Intervention
7.
8. The Six Circle Lens
Structure
Strategy
Operations
Information
Relationships
Connections
Identity
The place of
usual first
recourse
to improve
schools
• Temporary
• Difficult
• Transitory
Sustainable
change occurs
when the subsystems below
the green line
are addressed
as well as
those above.
