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Garfield Elementary School Augusta, Kansas

Discover how Garfield Elementary School in Augusta, Kansas, utilizes Professional Learning Communities to ensure all students learn and succeed. This article explores their strategies, accomplishments, and evidence of effectiveness.

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Garfield Elementary School Augusta, Kansas

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  1. What It Takes: PLC’s From the Beginning Garfield Elementary SchoolAugusta, Kansas Kim Christner and Diane Rhoten

  2. School Facts • Elementary School • 240 Students • South Central Kansas • 18 Certified Teachers / 16 Master’s Degrees • State Reading and Mathematics Assessments • School-wide Title 1

  3. Effective Professional Learning Communities • Solve problems thoughtfully, collectively, and continuously • Work with what they have while inventing, innovating, and adjusting their way toward excellence • Work to achieve the goal of “learning for all” • Look “in the mirror” • Collegial interchange

  4. Fundamental PLC Questions • What is it we want all students to learn? • How will we know when each student has acquired the intended knowledge and skills? • How will we respond when students experience initial difficulty so that we can improve upon current levels of learning?

  5. What We Have In Place • Common grade-level plan time • Student-focused goals • Building configuration

  6. Collegial Staff • Values teamwork • Consistency / low staff turnover • Willing & open to change • Think “outside the box”

  7. PLC Leadership • Communication • Process / organization • Positive climate

  8. Accomplishments • Assistance time • Scheduling (How do we utilize our staff to best serve student needs?) • After-school tutoring • Flexible reading groups

  9. Continuing Dialogue • Continue to analyze student achievement using data-driven dialogue • Implementing innovative, research-based instructional strategies • Formalize a hierarchy of interventions for struggling students

  10. Evidence of Effectiveness • Significant gains in local assessments from pre/mid/post testing • Kansas assessment scores continue to increase

  11. Finding Time for PLC’s • Before school • After school • Late start or early release days • Lunch • Creative scheduling

  12. Friday Celebrations • Academic Pep Rallies • Target specific academic goals • Collaboration with other buildings in the district

  13. Summary Points It’s the goal of every teacher to have a classroom of students who learn, are challenged, and achieve. Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning CommunitiesRespond When Kids Don’t Learn, DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Karhanek, National Educational Service, 2004

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