EDUC 6305

1. What is a Professional Learning Community? (PLC)

2. A Professional Learning Community

4. Work Collaboratively

6. Creating a Professional Learning Community is a Journey….

7. Making the Complex, Simple The professional learning community model requires the school staff to FOCUS on LEARNING rather than teaching, working collaboratively on matters related to learning, and hold itself accountable for the kind of results that fuel continual improvement

9. Simply being collaborativedoes not make change Members of a Learning Community must call on each other’s knowledge, skills and aspirations to address their goal.

10. What does it mean to collaborate?

11. In a Professional Learning Community….. Teachers work together on high performing teams

13. We assess our effectiveness on the basis of results rather than intentions. Individuals, teams and schools seek relevant data and information and use that information to promote continuous improvement. Rebecca DuFour PLC Results Focus

17. A Professional Learning Community IS… an infrastructure, or a way of working together, which results in continuous improvement

18. Until it’s been learned, it hasn’t been taught

19. We know that we can make a difference AND It’s the right thing to do. IF not us, then who? If not now, then when?