View Seminar: PLC: Building a Professional Learning Community in Your School
| Seminar Name | PLC: Building a Professional Learning Community in Your School |
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| Seminar Brochure | Seminar Brochure |
| External Seminar Brochure | Not set |
| Seminar Short Desc | The professional learning community model is a grand design and a powerful new way of working together that profoundly affects the practices of schooling. But initiating and sustaining the concept requires hard work. It requires the school staff to focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively on matters related to learning, and hold itself accountable for the kind of results that fuel continual improvement. Here, you will learn the answer "But, where do we start?" |
| Seminar Full Desc | What are Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)?
It is interesting to observe the growing popularity of the term professional learning community. In fact, the term has been used to describe every imaginable combination of people with an interest in education! It has been used to describe a grade-level teaching team, a school committee, a high school department, and so on. However, the PLC process is NOT a meeting, nor a program. It can't be purchased or implemented by anyone other than staff. A PLC is an ongoing, never-ending process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. PLCs operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous job-embedded learning for educators. Here are the elements of the PLC process: A Focus on Learning A Collaborative Culture With a Focus on Learning for All Collective Inquiry Into Best Practice and Current Reality Action Orientation: Learning by Doing A Commitment to Continuous Improvement Results Orientation Now is the time to move from interest to commitment! We will offer a comprehensive rationale for implementing the PLC process, the research that supports the various elements of the process, common mistakes people make in the implementation, and specific strategies and tools for overcoming those mistakes. Our work will be driven by the education expert on PLCs, Dr. Richard DuFour and his book, Professional Learning Communities at Work, Learning by Doing. |
| Seminar Date | 08/16/2018 |
| Opening Time | 8:30 am |
| Closing Time | 2:30 pm |
| Last Day To Register | 08/15/2018 [ Note: After this date, participation changes can be requested by e-mailing Laurie Sledge ] |
| Twin Seminar | Not set |
| Seminar Audience | District Superintendents
Building Principals District Leaders |
| Seminar Prerequisites | None |
| Seminar Topics, Concepts & Resources | Not set |
| Seminar Broadcast Notes | Not set |
| Seminar Objectives | 1. An understanding of what exactly is a PLC.
2. Creating specific steps to implement the PLC process. 3. Deciding the individual or group responsible for initiating and/or sustaining PLC work. 4.The timeline for each phase of implementation. 5.The criteria to be used in evaluating the PLC process. |
| Work Summary | Not set |
| Assessment of Learning | School Leaders will create an Action Plan for correctly implementing and sustaining Professional Learning Communities into their districts. |
| Evaluation Summary Notes | Not set |
| Needed Changes | Not set |
| Next Steps | Not set |
| Online Course Type | Not set |
| Site | CA BOCES Barn |
| Location | Training Room |
| Site Status | Regional |
| Day Number | 2 of 3 |
| Duration | 6 Hours |
| Rolling Online Course | No |
| Moodle Online Course | Not set |
| Seminar Status | Cancelled |
| Workshop | PLC: Building a Professional Learning Community in Your School |
| Day Number | 2 |
| Total Workshop Days | 3 |
| Starting Registration | 8:00 am |
| Credit Hours | 6.00 Per Day |
| CTLE Eligible | Yes |
| Social Worker Continuing Ed | No |
| Course Type | Not set |
| Online Course Instructions | Not set |
| Online Course Url | Not set |
| Online Course Pass Code | Not set |
| Provider | 529 - Professional Development |
| Category | 529 - Professional Development |
| Alt Fee Per Participant | Not set |
| Public Notes | Not set |
| Cancelled Date | 07/17/2018 |
| Added By | Laurie Sledge |
| Seminar Id | 2411 |
CTLE Activities
- Pedagogy
Facilitators
- Shannon Dodson Cancelled
Districts That Can Send Participants
- Allegany-Limestone Central School
- Andover Central School
- Belfast Central School
- Bolivar-Richburg Central School
- Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School
- Cuba-Rushford Central School
- Ellicottville Central School
- Fillmore Central School
- Franklinville Central School
- Friendship Central School
- Genesee Valley Central School
- Hinsdale Central School
- Olean City Schools
- Pioneer Central School
- Portville Central School
- Randolph Academy
- Randolph Central School
- Salamanca City Schools
- Scio Central School
- Wellsville Central School
- West Valley Central School
- Whitesville Central School
- CA-BOCES Admin
- CA-BOCES CTE
- CA-BOCES ISS
- CA-BOCES IT
- CA-BOCES Exceptional Education
- CA Teacher Center
First Day of Seminar Series
Learning Standards
- 1 Knowledge Students and Student Learning
- 2 Knowledge of Content and Instruction
- 3 Instructional Practice
- 4 Learning Environment
- 5 Assessment for Learning
- 6 Responsibilities Collaboration
- 7 Professional Growth