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Singleton PLCs: Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration

Singleton PLCs: Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration. Presented by: Wayne Herron, Dianne Greif, Dirk Bortz, Emily Sorensen Elgin School District a nd Liz Durant, InterMountain ESD. The Vision. To create a functional Professional Learning Community

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Singleton PLCs: Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration

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  1. Singleton PLCs: Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration Presented by: Wayne Herron, Dianne Greif, Dirk Bortz, Emily Sorensen Elgin School District and Liz Durant, InterMountain ESD

  2. The Vision To create a functional Professional Learning Community among rural Eastern Oregon high schools • Goal 1: Provide a supportive, collaborative PLC for Algebra I teachers to ensure Common Core State Standard are taught and that students are learning the standards. • Goal 2: Help other singleton disciplines become engaged with collaborative teaching and learning

  3. The Need • We need more students showing growth and meeting the Essential Skills math requirement • We need more students prepared to graduate and more students meeting the 40-40-20 goal presented by the Governor

  4. How We Began • Proposal from James Sims, School Improvement Coach and Consultant for Education Northwest • Contacted superintendents in the region who had singleton teachers • Asked for support from InterMountain ESD (financial and staff) • Identified a team leader and scheduled the first meeting

  5. Staying the Course Support from administration is crucial • Time • Resources • Goals • Evaluation

  6. The Process • First meeting: • Agenda • PLC 101 presentation • Future meetings: face-to-face or use technology? • ESD financial support • Provide a solid basis to launch the work

  7. The 4 PLC Questions • What do we want students to learn? • How will we know if they learn it? • How do we respond when students experience difficulty in learning? • How do we respond when students do learn?

  8. The Work What did we do the first year? • What is a PLC • Met once a month • Common Formative Assessments • Compared data (informally) • Discussed teaching strategies used in classrooms • Pacing guide

  9. Benefits • Student struggles are not isolated • Common assessments showed similar data • Teaching strategies used in multiple classrooms • Confidence with what we are teaching • Collaboration of different ideas into one

  10. Challenges • Distance • Communication • District Goals • Learning Common Core • Creating Assessments

  11. Plan for Future • Common formative assessments • More formal data analysis • Discuss instructional strategies based on analyzed data • Improve on Common Core implementation

  12. PLCs at Stella Mayfield School • Limited resources/funding • Collaboration with neighboring districts • Teacher teams doesn't always mean within your building • Ease of sharing gained from using tools like "Google Docs"

  13. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” - Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker

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