Professional Learning Communities

Making PLCs work for youNewsome High School

2014-2015 and 2015-2016

Representative from each department, administration, and counseling meet monthly

Discuss SIP and data trends

Monitor literacy trends school-wide

Professional Development to increase literacy scores

Plan annual literacy week activities

Instructional Leadership Team

Use assessment data to drive instruction

Collaborate within and across departments

Enhance literacy in all departments

Objectives

GOAL1.

Student achievement will increase when students work with rigorous curriculums which

prepare them to successfully meet content area standards and state standardized test

(FSA) pass rates.

School Improvement Goals

G1.BARRIER1

Departments need consistent PLC meetings

School Improvement Plan

G1.B1.STRATEGY1

Pre-planning PD on PLC meetings with Power Point and handouts for PLC implementation.

School Improvement Plan

1) Discuss and review discussion of culture / atmosphere of Newsome.

a) Did the ideas from the last meeting work? b) Are there new suggestions to try and / or new concerns

to discuss?c) Students with excessive absences/behavior issues?

PLC Logs Question #1

2) Discuss and review suggestions and ideas from the last PLC meeting:

a) Problems anyone is having?b) Suggestions for the problem(s).c) Assessment(s) results.d) Changes to pacing needed?e) Using standards handout: highlight any standard(s) your group is

currently using and list the standard number(s).f) What successful strategies did you use when teaching these standards

(activities, CRISS, KAGAN, gradual release, scaffolding, modeling, etc.)

PLC Logs Question #2

Make a list of all of the assessments you use in your classroom

Decide if each assessment is (F) Formative of (S) Summative

Assessment(s) results

Box in RED the assessments that are used school-wide

Circle in GREEN the assessments that are used throughout your department

Underline in BLUE the assessments that you ONLY use in your classroom

Assessment(s) results

Write on a card those assessments that include data about reading and /or literacy.

Assessment(s) results

THIS is the data you will include on your PLC form each month.

What does the data tell you?Increases/Decreases?

Compare period-to-period, throughout departments, across departments.

Assessment(s) results

Each department has been assigned a color (the color on your name tag) Blue = English and Reading Green = History Yellow = Math Red = Science Orange = Fine Arts and Foreign Language Purple = Technology and PE

Mix-It-Up

In two-minutes form groups in which no two colors are

duplicated. Each department should be represented.

Mix-It-Up

Select literacy assessments from the lists (1) each that is from a specific department

only and (2) that are school wide assessments

New Group Discussion

What does the data tell you?

What do increases and decreases tell you?

Are there assessments that departments share?

New Group Discussion

Write down one assessment that you can use to track student

achievement

Write down one data solution that you will use in your PLC

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