Questions are the way points on the path of wisdom.

Randolph PLCs

What & How of PLCs at Westminster...

Why PLCs?

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What makes orchestras and sports teams successful?

Do schools utilize the wisdom of teams when it comes to our adult learners?

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So much to juggle...technology, cont ent, pedagogy, brain-based learning, assessment practices,...

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Associating
Observing

Questioning
Experimenting

Networking

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How it all began...

No matter what Jill says, this really happened!

- Seymour Sarason, as reported

Theres an assumption that schools are for students learning. Well, why aren t they just as much for teachers learni ng?
by Carol Dweck, Mindset

Junior High School PLC Growth

2007-2012
27 JH English JH History JH Math JH Science [+11]

36 JH English JH History JH Language JH Math JH Science [+11+8]

42 JH English JH History JH Language JH Math JH Science [+36+16]

5 Math-Sci-Econ

6 Math-Sci-Econ

07-08

08-09

09-10

10-11

11-12

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Math 6 Pre-Algebra Pre-Algebra*

Bleich Davenport Cutbirth

Algebra I Algebra I* English 6

Meyer Little Watson

Gale Stevens Thomas

English 7 English 8 Writing Workshop

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create systems that allow hunches to come together

Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From

Math 6 PLT Eng 6 PLT Math 7 PLT Eng 7 PLT Math 8 PLT Eng 8 PLT

Sci 6 PLT Sci 7 PLT Sci 8 PLT Vertical Dialogue In Dept. PLCs

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What will school look like in the future?

Can we build Learnopolis?

3 Big Ideas 4 Key Questions

working A professional learning community is a group of educators committed to arch in order to collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action rese assumption that achieve better results for the students they serve. PLCs operate under the ing for the key to improved learning for students is continuous, job-embedded learn educators.
Rick and Becky DuFour

LEARNING
is our focus

When groups [teams], ra ther than individuals, are seen as the main units for implementing cu rriculum, instruction, and assessment, they facilitate developmen t of shared purposes for student learning and collective responsibi lity to achieve it. Newm
an & Wehlage (1996)

COLLABORATION
is our culture

greatness. You cannot do ne is too small a number to achieve O problems we cannot ing of real value alone. There are no anyth can solve by ourselves. solve together, and very few that we mwork
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guide our decisions

RESULTS

urses students take or ucation judges success not by the co Results-driven ed n do as a result of t by what they actually know and ca grades they receive, bu t by how many teachers and school. Success will be judged no their time in perceive its value, but ate in staff development or how they principals particip that benets onal behavior and practices in a way whether it alters instructi students.
Dennis Sparks (1995)

What should be learned?

Key Question #1

How will we know if they have learned?

Key Question #2

What will we do if they...already know it/arent learning?

Key Questions #3 and #4

Characteristics of a Learning Community

1. Shared mission, vision, values, goals 2. Collaborative teams focused on learning 3. Collective inquiry into best practice and current reality 4. Action orientation and experimentation 5. Commitment to continuous improvement 6. Results orientation
Rick and Becky DuFour

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What if...we worked in tribes for learnings sake?

Seth Godin: Tribes

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of Susan Sparks and Solution Tree for use Special Thanks to Teams materials from Creating Collaborative Workshop, Denver, CO: 2009. e s to Rick and Rebecca DuFour and Mik Special Thank ng r the Solution Tree Professional Learni Mattos fo unities Institute, Atlanta, GA: 2009. Comm