Hunt PLC InformationThe Work of PLCs
PLCs are framed by four questions and how they reflect our fundamental purpose. Everything we do will fall under one of these questions. 1. What is it that we want all students to know? This is the viable and guaranteed curriculum for all students. We want to know the precise knowledge and skills that have endurance, leverage and are essential for preparing students for readiness at the next level. Many terms serve as pseudonyms for the essential knowledge and skills: power standards, priority standards, essential learnings, essential questions, outcomes are a few common terms. These outcomes will be negotiated in small and large teams both vertically and horizontally over time. They are the most essential knowledge and skills our students need to know to be successful in life, at the next level, and on state assessments. 2. How will we know they have learned it? We will know if they have learned the essential learnings through common formative assessments that give teachers early information about student learning. The collaborative examination of the results provides opportunities for teachers to study instruction, make adjustments for students, and align curriculum. 3. How will we respond if they haven't learned it? 4. How will we respond if they already know it? By answering questions one and two we know who knows the curriculum and who doesn't. How will we respond to that information? If we are all about learning, if we have decided our students really need to know this, we can't ignore the information we have gathered. These are the questions to which teams and schools will respond with a pyramid of interventions for students not making it or providing enrichment for students who have it already (RTI- Response to Intervention is a building name for this, differentiation is a classroom name for this). When this is happening for students it will look different in every building, team and classroom. For non-instructional classified staff the questions might be different because they support learning in a variety of ways. Their PLC work will still revolve around investigating and implementing best practices, streamlining processes, and assessing the impact of their work. This is important work and it helps us to build our professional capacity. PLCs are about empowering us to take action for student learning. |
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Hunt PLC Calendar & FormsTo sign up for your department PLC time, use the PLC Google Calendar in your Google Account. For a quick video tutorial, click HERE.
PLC Online Meeting Form - To be completed at the end of every PLC. Other PLC ResourcesAll Things PLC - Comprehensive review of what PLCs should look like and resources
All Things PLC Resources - Free tools when you sign up What are Data Walls? Newport Mesa Unified District Using Data Walls to Differentiate Instruction - Teaching Channel video and Resources Guidelines for Data Walls - Reading Selection fro Dr. Reeves |