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Technical Assistance for Schools on Corrective Action and Restructuring Session 2: December 15 & 16, 2008 Presented by Erin Sullivan & Gail Varney Title I School lmprovement Coordinators. Welcome!.

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  1. Technical Assistance for Schools on Corrective Action and Restructuring Session 2: December 15 & 16, 2008 Presented by Erin Sullivan & Gail Varney Title I School lmprovement Coordinators Welcome!

  2. “The use of professional learning communities is the best, least expensive, most professionally rewarding way to improve schools such communities hold out immense, unprecedented hope for schools and the improvement of teaching.” Mike Schmoker

  3. What are the Essential Characteristics of a PLC?

  4. #1Shared Mission, Vision, Collective Commitments, and Goals

  5. #2Collaborative Teams Focused on Learning

  6. #3Collective Inquiry into the Current Reality of the School and Best School Practices

  7. #4An Action Orientation

  8. #5A Commitment to Continuous Improvement

  9. #6A Focus on Results

  10. Activity: Think/Pair/Share Your Definition of a PLC.

  11. What Cultural Shifts Take Place in a PLC?

  12. “Probably the most important – and the most difficult – job of the school-based reformer is to change the prevailing culture of a school ultimately, a school’s culture has far more influence on life and learning in the schoolhouse than the state department of education, the superintendent, the school board, or even the principal can ever have.”Roland Barth

  13. From a Focus on Teaching... to a Focus on Learning

  14. From Working in Isolation... to Working Collaboratively

  15. From External Professional Development... to Job-Embedded Learning

  16. From Focusing on Activities... to Focusing on Results

  17. From Fixed Time... to Flexible Time

  18. From Average Learning... to Individual Learning

  19. From Punitive... to Positive

  20. From “Teacher Tell/Student Listen...” to “Teacher Coach/Student Practice”

  21. From Recognizing the Elite... to Creating Opportunity for Many Learners

  22. Why Professional Learning Communities to Support School Improvement?

  23. Do you see a benefit in a school wide focus on what you expect students to learn? Would effective assessment – knowing when students have learned and when they haven’t and intervening to help individual students - improve achievement? Do you think collaboration would increase accountability?

  24. The framework of a PLC is inextricably linked to the effective integration of standards, assessment, and accountability. (Reeves, 2005)

  25. Will school improvement be supported by teachers actively involved in ongoing, professional learning and application of proven strategies?

  26. Well-implemented PLCs are a powerful means of seamlessly blending teaching and professional learning in ways that produce complex, intelligent behavior in all teachers. (Sparks, 2005)

  27. A Professional Learning Community is a FRAMEWORK in Which a School Can Focus on School Improvement

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