1. Using Data Protocols to Strengthen Your PLC
Lisa Andrew & Dan Mason
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Julia Sterne
School City
8:30-8:35
Lisa
Welcome
Introductions
Bathrooms…

2. Agenda Welcome/Agenda Warm-Up Professional Learning Teams Defined
Team Roles and Responsibilities
Focus on Learning
Using STARS
Protocols
8:35
Lisa
Review agenda
Lunch at 11:45

3. Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen
Gladwell (2002) identifies three different types of people who help
to make trends happen: Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen.
Read the three cards on your table.
Decide which card best describes you
when you are at work.
8:37-8:40
Lisa

4. Affinity Groups Once you have selected the card that best describes
you, move to the section of the room denoting
your choice.
Discuss with others in your group:
How your type will work to ensure your grade level will stay motivated and engaged with PLT work.
How you will problem-solve when an issue arises in your PLT.
The best strategy (ies) for your principal to use to support you.
8:40
Lisa
-9:00

5. Outcomes
Understand the cultural shifts that must occur when a school decides to take action to ensure all students learn through the use of a Professional Learning Community.
Understand the necessary conditions for high quality implementation of a Professional Learning Community
Understand how to plan and facilitate successful PLT meetings
And ultimately…to affect student achievement!
9:00-9:03
Lisa

6. What is a Professional Learning Team?
In pairs, complete a T-chart describing
what a PLT is and what it is not
Compare your T-chart to page 24
“Professional Learning Teams”
9:03-9:20
Lisa
Post T-charts
Circle descriptors of what at least 3 of the 4 charts have in common
Have pairs compare their chart to page 24 and put a star next to descriptors they included from the table.

7. PLT Meeting Protocol 1. Collect and chart data.
2. Analyze strengths and obstacles.
3. Establish goals: set, review, revise.
4. Select instructional strategies.
5. Determine results indicators.
9:20-9:25
Lisa
Why is it important to have an agenda? A protocol?

8. Guiding Questions What do we want students to learn?
How will we know if each student has
learned?
How will we respond when some
students do not learn?
How can we extend and enrich the
learning for students who have
demonstrated proficiency?
How do we ensure equity of access and
opportunity for each student?
9:25-9:40
Lisa
With a partner, describe the data involved in each question.
For example, the first question “What do we want student to learn? Data that you need is pre..starting point…data that indicates the goal.

9. Roles and Responsibilities
Review the “Team Member Responsibilities” page.
Circle the three that you feel will be growth areas for your PLT.
What strategies will you employ to support this growth?
Review the “Facilitators Role and Responsibilities”
Circle the three that you feel with be crucial to your team’s success.
9:40-10:10
Lisa
Share survey “Rate Yourself as a Team Player” pages 52/53
Share Facilitators Responsibilities sheet

10. BREAK
10:10-10:25

11. Moving From a Focus on Teaching to a Focus on Learning
what students should be learning and what assessments should look like… TO
Focus on learning:
monitoring whether or not students are mastering required content, supporting students who are not successful, and challenging those who are
10:25-10:30
Lisa
Reminder of whole group training

12. Developing SMART Goals
Write the letters S-M-A-R-T going down the back of your power point packet.
As you watch the video segment write the definition of each letter of the SMART goal acronym.
Be thinking about how SMART goals are similar and different than the goals your grade level team has written in the past
10:30-10:50
Lisa
View Collaborative Teams CD “Use SMART Goals”
Whole group discussion…
What interested you in the PLT you observed?
Which of the five PLT questions were they trying to address?
Can anyone give a specific examples of one of the norms that was being followed?
What is meant by SMART goal?
As you watched the PLT at work, what action plan steps were they developing to achieve their SMART goal?

13. Developing SMART Goals
With a partner, examine the completed SMART goal worksheet.
What parts will be familiar to your PLT?
What parts will be new for your PLT?
Write a SMART goal that you would like to explore today using data from STARS.
10:50-11:15
Lisa
When done….pass pages two three to the left
Post-it with honest feedback about the goal…refer to each letter in SMART when giving feedback

14. Choosing a Data Protocol
What questions should we ask when deciding which protocol to use?
Who in the PLC should choose the protocol?
11:15-11:45
Dan
Share 6 data protocols. Have small groups chart Strengths and Possible Uses for each Protocol. Gallery Walk charts.

15. 11:45-12:45

16. Monitoring Progress on SMART Goals
12:45-2:45
Julia and Dan
Continue Demo of STARS data retrieval
BREAK sometime in this block

17. Conduct a PLC Meeting Form a group of three.
Choose someone’s SMART goal.
Access data from STARS to monitor progress.
Choose a protocol to analyze data.
2:45-3:15
Julia and Dan

18. Ahas, Oh Nos, What Abouts
On a post-it record three AHAS from the day…and post
On a post-it record one Oh Nos from the day..and post
On a post-t record one What Abouts…and post
3:15
Julia and Dan
Divide group into three group. Each group synthesizes one chart. A report from each group shares results. Group answers all What About questions.