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PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design
What makes a powerful and results-driven Professional Learning Community (PLC)? The answer is collaborative work that expands the emphasis on student learning and leverages individual teacher efficacy into collective teacher efficacy.
Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design calls for strong and effective PLCs plus―and that plus is YOU. Until now, the PLC movement has been focused almost exclusively on students and what they were or were not learning. But keeping student learning at the forefront requires that we also recognize the vital role that you play in the equation of teaching and learning. This means that PLCs must take on two additional maximizing your individual expertise, while harnessing the power of the collaborative expertise you can develop with your peers.
PLC+ is grounded in four cross-cutting themes―a focus on equity of access and opportunity, high expectations for all students, a commitment to building individual self-efficacy and the collective efficacy of the professional learning community and effective team activation and facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ framework supports educators in considering five essential questions as they work together to improve student Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit? The PLC+ framework leads educators to question practices as well as outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement learning communities that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy.
Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design calls for strong and effective PLCs plus―and that plus is YOU. Until now, the PLC movement has been focused almost exclusively on students and what they were or were not learning. But keeping student learning at the forefront requires that we also recognize the vital role that you play in the equation of teaching and learning. This means that PLCs must take on two additional maximizing your individual expertise, while harnessing the power of the collaborative expertise you can develop with your peers.
PLC+ is grounded in four cross-cutting themes―a focus on equity of access and opportunity, high expectations for all students, a commitment to building individual self-efficacy and the collective efficacy of the professional learning community and effective team activation and facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ framework supports educators in considering five essential questions as they work together to improve student Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit? The PLC+ framework leads educators to question practices as well as outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement learning communities that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy.
216 pages, Paperback
Published June 17, 2019
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Douglas Fisher
551 books37 followersDouglas Fisher, Ph.D., is an educator and Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.
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July 6, 2019
A refined, powerful PLC model focused on these five questions: 1 - Where are we going? 2 - Where are we now? 3 - How do we move learning forward? 4 - What did we learn today? 5 - Who benefited and who did not benefit? The we is both students and the teachers and the big shift is to focus on learning AND its connection to effective instruction.
This model is well-aligned with visible learning practices, RTI, and culturally responsive, equity focused instruction. There is a companion playbook full of protocols, reflection exercises, and implementation tools.
There's no expectation that we can dig into all five questions at every PLC meeting, just that these questions guide our PLC work. Instead of SMART goals, the model has teams address "common challenges" which are designed to invite a collective, team-based response to measurable learning goals. The "plus" is you, the teacher, activator, or learner on the PLC team.
This model is well-aligned with visible learning practices, RTI, and culturally responsive, equity focused instruction. There is a companion playbook full of protocols, reflection exercises, and implementation tools.
There's no expectation that we can dig into all five questions at every PLC meeting, just that these questions guide our PLC work. Instead of SMART goals, the model has teams address "common challenges" which are designed to invite a collective, team-based response to measurable learning goals. The "plus" is you, the teacher, activator, or learner on the PLC team.
June 28, 2022
Great read for refining the PLC process with specific action steps!
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