1. Critical Issues for Team Consideration
PLC
Critical Issues for Team Consideration

2. GOALS Re-visit Tight and Loose Expectations
Review a portion of the John Hattie Research and the connection to our PLC work
Share Intervention Ideas from another Middle School
Reflect on Critical Considerations of a team and create action steps for lowest group rating
Dufour Reading

3. Re-visit commitments Tight PLC Commitments Loose PLC Commitments
Rotate PLC lead and recording responsibilities.
Hold each other accountable to team norms.
Deconstruct standards into learning targets.
Give a weekly CFA
Collect and Analyze data from the CFA
Use data for in-class interventions and extensions.
Focus on Best Practices
Stay on pace with each other (within reason).
Strategies and methods for instruction
Types of formative assessments given each week
Tool utilized for discussing weekly data
Types and format of daily and weekly intervention and enrichment strategies.
Grading of Assessments as a PLC

4. John Hattie Work Self-reporting of grades (1.44)
Providing formative evaluation (.90) assessment of learning before or during the learning process.
Teacher Clarity (.75)
Feedback (.75)-praise vs. feedback & task, process, self-regulation

5. John Hattie Work
Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning
The Politics of Collaboration:

6. Intervention Ideas From Another Middle School
Swap Days “All students are our students”
Work as a team with other teachers during their planning
Intervention period dedicated to instructing prior years critical material.

7. Critical Issues for Team Consideration
Individually rate your team on each of the 18 statements.

8. Critical Issues for Team Consideration
Determine consensus on the highest rated areas of your PLC.
What habits have you created to ensure these are high areas?
Determine consensus on the lowest rated areas of your PLC.
Identify the lowest area that your team feels will have the most positive impact on your PLC.

9. Exit Create an action plan for the PLC determined lowest area. When?
How often?
Who is responsible?
Why is this important to improving our PLC?