Team norms teacher plc

Once each month, we hold a literacy coach meeting to bring together the four literacy coaches in our district. We are each building-based, so this is often our only time to collaborate, talk, and …

Raise your hand if you've ever sat in a grade level team meeting and been frustrated because you're the only one to share ideas with your team. Raise both hands if these meetings consist of

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After a day of long meetings, many of us stayed late in order to put the finishing touches on our classrooms. Others arrived at school earlier than usual to make sure that everything was ready to go. This is me-Finally finished setting up my classroom at ~7:00 p.m. There were other teachers still in the building when I left. That's DEDICATION (or craziness---you decide!) My Classroom-I started with Learning Centers on Day 1---more to come about that in a later post The floors gleamed with…

The acronym PLC refers to Professional Learning Communities, which are organized collaborative structures among educators. Many schools have PLC’s, but how they are set up and run vary greatly. A discussion recently came up in the Instructional Coaching Connection Facebook group where a coach was looking for advice from other coaches on how PLC’s are…

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Buzzing with Ms. B: Facilitating a Data PLC: Part Two of the "Next Steps in Instructional Coaching" series - A Data PLC happens when you have some data and you need to look at it as a group and make some observations and decisions about it! In order

A fun activity to have teachers and staff do at a PLC or staff meeting to dig into the basics of professional learning communities. This sort will help teachers and staff see the difference between activities in a PLC versus activities that would be considered a professional working community (PWC). This resource includes editable task cards.

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