1. Welcome to Angel Fire Retreat Southwest Plains Regional Service Center www.swprsc.org

2. Golf

3. Summer ‘07 Day 1 – Using Data to Lead Change Day 2 – Leading Change By Understanding Self and Others

4. M & M Activity

5. Questions to Answer: Orange -- Leadership Highpoint of the Year Brown -- Leadership Challenge for ’06-’07 Red -- Last educational book or article read Blue -- FREE DISCUSSION Green -- Favorite Hobby Yellow -- Family Joy

6. Professional Learning Communities P L C Kelly Gillespie, Executive Director Southwest Plains Regional Service Center PO Box 1010, 900 West Lark Avenue Sublette, Kansas 67877 1-800-728-1022 or 620-675-2241 Fax 620-675-2396 Cell Phone 620-353-0130 Email: kgillespie@swprsc.org

7. Rick and Becky DuFour Professional Learning Communities at Work Wichita Airport Hilton Wichita, Kansas April 23-24, 2007 Registration fee for SWPRSC members $325/person, reduced rate of $275/person for teams of 4 or more Registration fee for non-members is $400/person, Reduced rate of $350/person for teams or 4 or more www.swprsc.org

8. Resources for PLC

9. PLC idea is built upon: “All children can learn.”

10. PLC School Aggressive and Systematic identifying and solving problems (road blocks) as they emerge.

11. Three Themes of PLC’s PLC Theme #1 A collaboratively developed mission, vision, values, and goals. Fundamental purpose of school is Learning.

12. PLC Theme #2 Collaborative teams »Work interdependently »Common goals

13. PLC Theme #3 A commitment to continuous improvement and a constant focus.

14. PLC’s shift focus of a building from Teaching to Learning.

15. PLC Foundation 1 leg = mission 1 leg = vision 1 leg = values 1 leg = goals COLLABORATIVELY DEVELOPED

16. Mission Statement driven by these three Core Questions - 1. What do we expect students to learn? 2. How will we know when they have learned it? 3. How will we respond to students who aren’t learning?

17. Goals Specific Measurable Attainable Results Oriented Time Bound

18. What systems are in place in your school to monitor each student’s learning?

19. PLC Theme #2 Collaborative Culture

20. Need to consider: Embedded Team Time

21. “Collective Inquiry” Goal of Collaborative Team

22. Value of Every Team Member

23. Leadership in a PLC Different from Traditional Role

24. Strong Leadership Role Facilitator Clear Communicator Give up Power Build Shared Knowledge Establish Current Reality Strong Leadership Role Facilitator Strong Leadership Role

25. Leaders of PLC: Must “Set-up” Collaboration to be Successful resources parameters interdependent focus monitoring/reporting

26. Leaders of PLC: Sustain Vision Maintain high expectations for collaborative team

27. Leaders of PLC: Lead teachers to develop common assessments to frequently measure student progress.

28. How do we begin? Round-Table Topic Tomorrow