1. Learning Communities Working Together to Improve Schools

2. Insert copy of School Instrument cover here

3. Evolution of PLCs in New Brunswick 2002 – Andy Hargreaves introduces school/district/Department leaders to learning focused community model. 2003 – Districts begin to prepare district and school leaders. 2005 – Tranquilla & Morehouse report on leadership (school review). 2006 – Principals’ meeting showcases school-based PLC successes – PLC School Instrument developed and used to assess 55 schools 2007 – PLC Academy held in Fredericton 2008 – PLC Summit in Moncton 2009 – School Review Instrument redesigned to reflect more PLC criteria

4. Professional Learning Communities A Journey – Not a Destination A Process – Not a Product

5. French Immersion Inclusion Universal Design PLC Express

6. Attempts to tinker with the industrial model of schooling have failed to produce the increase in student learning that we all seek. The reason why student learning cannot be improved lies in the systemic structure and operations of schools more so than in any deficiency regarding curriculum or instructional practices. Williams 2007 monograph sent to all Superintendents and Department Leadership

7. Seismic Shifts in School Culture FROM: a focus on teaching to a focus on learning a hierarchical top down management to a sharing of leadership roles and responsibilities to relationships and accountability working as individuals to working as teams teachers working in isolation to teacher modeling practices with each other. a focus on inputs (resources) to a focus on outputs (student results)

8. Schools have gone from dealing with: Simplicity → Complexity Predictable future → Unknown future with a shift in focus on: Knowledge retention → Critical thinking & Problem solving Working in isolation → Teaming & Sharing an approach that must change from Standardization → Individualization Teacher-Centered → Student-Centered

9. Checklist Activity for a Professional Learning Community

10. “It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.” ― Millard Fuller