Teaching Learning Connection & Professional Learning Communities

1. Teaching Learning Connection & Professional Learning Communities You Can Get There From Here!

2. PLCs: The WhatTLC: The How • Clarify what each student is expected to learn • Monitor each student’s learning on a timely basis • Create systems to ensure students receive additional time and support if they are not learning • Making Standards Work & Unwrapping • Data Teams • Common Formative Assessment • Effective Teaching Strategies

3. PLCs: The WhatTLC: The How • Systematic process to identify curriculum • Systematic process to analyze results data in light of cause data • Collective Responsibility • Making Standards Work • Data Driven Decision Making • Data Teams • Common Formative and Summative Assessments • Effective Teaching Strategies • System of Accountability for Student Learning

4. PLCs: The WhatTLC: The How • Data Driven Decisions • Common Formative and Summative Assessments • Data Driven Decision Making • Data Teams • Effective Teaching Strategies

5. PLCs: The WhatTLC: The How • Meaningful Teamwork • Clear and Measurable Goals • Regular Collection and Analysis of Performance Data • Data Teams • Tier 1, Tier 2 and Data Team SMART Goals • Common Formative and Summative Assessments • Data Team Meeting Times Scheduled • System of Accountability For Student Learning

6. PLCs: The WhatTLC: The How • Results Oriented Goals (SMART Goals) • Tier 1 and Tier 2 Goals (SMART GOALS) • Data Driven Decision Making • Data Teams • Effective Teaching Strategies • System of Accountability For Student Learning

7. PLCs: The WhatTLC: The How • Data Teams and Data Driven Decision Making • Effective Teaching Strategies and Data Driven Instruction • System of Accountability For Student Learning • Making Standards Work – Power Standards • Data Teams, Effective Teaching Strategies, Data Team Lesson Planning and Observations • Common Formative Assessments and Summative Assessments based upon Unwrapped Power Standards • A PLC is a collaborative venture • A PLC is always focused on student learning. • A PLC distributes leadership responsibilities. • A PLC narrows the curriculum to its essence. • A PLC shares best practices as a means of improving instruction. • A PLC uses “assessment for learning” in addition to the usual “assessment of learning.”

8. B. Create & Administer Common Pre-test based upon targets A. Identify common learning targets for students Data Teams™ E. Assess Efforts and Reflect on Teaching to Determine Next Steps C. Use Structure of Five-Step Data Team Process D. Teach, Assess, Teach, and Assess Data Team Process:Teacher Collaboration

9. Data Team Process = Inquiry, Action, and Reflection • Design and administer Pre- Post-assessment based upon Power and Unwrapped Standards • Inquiry:What do our students do well? With what do they need intervention? • 2. Analysis/set goals/design lessons and interventions • Action:What will the teachers do to intervene? (Implement strategies.) • 3. Teach and use common formative assessments • Reflection:Did the interventions work? What will teachers do next and why? • Repeat steps 1-3 as necessary. • 4. Administer common summative assessments and report results to administrator • Inquiry:Were the students proficient? What worked, what didn’t?

10. Where Are You Going? "WOULD YOU TELL ME PLEASE, WHICH WAY I OUGHT TO GO?" "THAT DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU WANT TO GET TO," SAID THE CAT. "I DON'T MUCH CARE WHERE-" SAID ALICE. "THEN IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH WAY YOU GO," SAID THE CAT. "-SO LONG AS I GET SOMEWHERE." SAID ALICE "OH, YOU'RE SURE TO DO THAT," SAID THE CAT, "IF YOU ONLY KEEP WALKING.“ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland