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The Big Picture: Learning the essential characteristics and actions of becoming a professional learning community.

Becoming a Professional Learning Community

(PLC)

Critical Question 1:

What do we expect all students to know and be able to do?
 

  • Developing a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum: Providing a Schoolwide Focus to Improve Results
     

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Critical Question 2:

How will we know students have learned it? 
 

  • Uncovering the Linchpin of the PLC Process: The Why and How of Developing Common Formative Assessments​

The Big Picture: Learning the essential characteristics and actions of developing the three tiers in the RTI/MTSS process.

Developing a Schoolwide System of Interventions

 (RTI/MTSS)

Critical Question 3:

How will we respond when students don’t learn?

 

Critical Question 4:

How will we respond when they already know it?

 

  • Learning a clear process to develop and progress monitor tier 2 intervention.

  • Learning a clear process to develop and progress monitor tier 3 intervention.

  • Developing a schoolwide intervention team to support and monitor the RTI/MTSS process.​
     

The Big Picture: How District Office Leaders and Principals Lead a Professional Learning Community to Improve Districtwide Results.

Developing District and Site Leadership to Improve Student Achievement

  • Developing and effectively utilizing a leadership team/guiding coalition to support and monitor the school improvement process.

 

  • Evaluating schoolwide processes and creating a clear, actionable PLC Action Plan.

 

  • Enhancing knowledge and skills as a site leader to improve student achievement.

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Enhancing Classroom

Teaching Practices

  • Improving the quality of tier 1 core instruction with research-based teaching pedagogy.
     

  • Learning effective classroom management strategies.
     

  • Learning strategies to actively engage students in learning.
     

  • Developing a process for students to set goals, monitor, and assume responsibility for their own learning.

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