A presentation about PLCs at Herriman High School.

1. SIMPLIFYING
PLC

2. Core Principle 1: Champion for Students &
Teachers
Core Principle 2: Expect Excellence
Core Principle 3: Carry the Banner
Core Principle 4: Be a Merchant of Hope
#Relentless
My Core Principles

3. Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

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Accountability & Visibility

6. 1
Identify
Essential
Standards

7. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
What makes them essential?

8. 3 possible criteria make a
standard an “essential”
standard
Power Standards: Identifying the Standards that Matter the Most
by Larry Ainsworth
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9. What Are
Essential Standards?
Endurance:
Knowledge that is
relevant throughout life

10. Leverage:
Applicable to many
academic disciplines
What Are
Essential Standards?

11. Readiness:
Necessary to succeed
at next level or course
What Are
Essential Standards?

12. Essential Standards Process
Step 1
Individually review the list of standards for the class
Step 2
Build consensus as a team about which standards are essential
standards
Step 3
Check alignment to state test using “test blueprint”
Step 4
Look at the results of your longitudinal data i.e. previous state
test scores
Step 5
Check your list of essential standards for vertical alignment

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Easy way to remember?
Heart = ESSENTIAL
Leg = Not essential to life

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What you will find is that a good set of
Essential Standards will cover about 88% of
the items on the state test, but not 100%. If you
go after the extra 12%, you will have to cover
many more standards and hence have less
teaching time to thoroughly teach each of the
essential standards.
Power Standards: Identifying the Standards that Matter the Most
by Larry Ainsworth

15. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Essential Standards help avoid
Curriculum Chaos

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Robert J. Marzano rates a Guaranteed and
Viable Curriculum as the first factor having
the most impact on student achievement
What Works in Schools
by Robert J. Marzano

17. 2
Create
Pacing &
Unit Guides

20. 3
Create
Common
Assessments

21. Type of Assessments
3 Types of Assessments:
Multiple Choice
Open-Ended
Performance Based

22. Type of Assessments
3 Types of Assessments:
Multiple Choice
Open-Ended
Performance Based
Which one is best?

23. Which Assessment?
None of the methods are inherently
superior to any other, and all are viable
if used well

24. What Size?
What size of assessment?

25. What Size?
Three is the minimum number of
questions for each learning target
Triangulated Result

26. What Size?
Four questions are better if you use
multiple choice questions

27. PACING GUIDES
Remember:
These documents are
living and change
continually

28. 4
Sustainable,
Actionable,
& Visible Data

29. Data?
Five Steps to Using
Data to Make a
Difference

30. Data?
Step 1:
Gathering the Data

31. Data?
Step 2:
Analyzing the Data

32. Data?
Step 3:
Planning the Response

33. Data?
Step 4:
Reviewing the Assessment

34. Data?
Step 5:
Next Steps

35. Data?
Step 5:
Finding Time to Respond

36. Data?
Step 5:
Designing Tier 2 Response

37. 5
Tiered
Instruction
& Intervention

38. ALL
SOME
FEW

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41. Recommended Reading