PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES (PLCs)

As a district we are implementing Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). The goal of PLCs is to provide teachers with common time to set goals and assess progress on those goals to ensure that we are planning and implementing instruction that will meet the educational needs of our students and assist with our attaining our instructional goal – that all students can learn. The three basic questions that are the cornerstone of PLCs are 1) What do we want students to learn?, 2) How will we know they are learning?, and 3) What will we do if they do not learn?.

These three questions are revisited by the teams every week as they work to help ALL students learn.  Teacher collaboration by grade level in the elementary and by subject area in the junior/senior high school provides several benefits: Higher quality solutions to problems, ability to test new ideas, and teachers are able to support one another with ideas, materials, and methods.