1. PLC Learning Gathering #4

2. Acknowledgment of Territory

3. Collaborative Inquiry Process School Share Outs & Discussions
Agenda 12:30pm-3:00pm
Check-in Activity
Collaborative Inquiry Process
Break
School Share Outs & Discussions
PLC Survey

4. Whole school shared data &
Because of PLC…
Whole school shared data &
discussed
Collaborate with
all staff
Time to
learn

5. Intentions Discuss the benefits of PLCs
Discuss to major shared challenges and shared solutions
How to increase staff engagement?
How to use data to drive inquiries?

6. Norms for our PLC Gatherings
We value smaller group work so there is more space for all to speak. We will contribute openly - be vulnerable - build trust. We will listen to learn, listen deeply, listen to understand – without interrupting.

7. District PLC Gathering: Beliefs in Action
Student Learning TRUST Collaboration
Data Responsive to change

8. NLPS Collaborative Inquiry Cycle

9. PLC and Inquiry

10. The Collaborative Inquiry Process
Focuses on student learning
Foundational skills
Occurs in small recurring cycles
Relies on commitment and accountability
Informed by the best available research & practices
Based on trying new approaches
Measured by evidence of impact
This what PLC inquiries should reflect.

11. Whole School Goal
How can we differentiate our instruction to improve student achievement in literacy and numeracy?
Playful Targeted Phonological Skills
Reading Power Strategies to improve comprehension
Explicit instruction on 6+1 writing trait strategies
Targeted Numeracy Instruction
Smaller PLC Inquiries
Complex vowels purposeful centres
Inferencing with non-fiction
Sentence fluency
Number Sense play based centres
Small PLC Inquiries

12. PLC Inquiries…
Over a short (1-4 week period), teacher teams put a PLAN(strategy) into ACTION, OBSERVE and collect evidence of student progress and REFLECT on the impact. Turn and Talk and Share

14. Your Turn…

16. minimal participation
Last time… we discussed Barriers to PLCs
PLC not connected to data
lack measurable data
disconnected
quantifying results
lack of Investment
minimal participation
Staff Engagement
Data Driven Inquiries
limited attention
unfocused
time not valued
little risk taking

17. Staff Engagement Data Driven Inquiries
Forest Park Elementary

18. Trust, Vulnerability and Shame
Schedule with flexibility
Sustainability
Celebrate and focus on the positives (Baby Steps)

20. Link to group accountability form:
Link to schedule:
Link to group accountability form:
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21.  Critical Questions to discuss within your PLC Team:
Have we established our team norms/expectations?
What is our question? What issue are we addressing as a team?
Now that we have chosen a solid question to focus on we can follow the Inquiry Model
Inquiry model – These three simple questions will help guide and focus each meeting
What are we doing? (What is our purpose/ how are we addressing the issue?)
How is it going? (Is it working? What will the evidence/results be?)
Where to next? (What are we doing between now and the next meeting? What is the focus for the next meeting?)

22. DuFour:
Maintaining a PLC is where the real work lies and where accountability has often been lost. Once a PLC is underway it is crucial that all of the hard work does not go to waste.
Teachers must take a shared responsibility in sustaining and building upon what has been created.

24. Thanks for your time! sean.walsh@sd68.bc.ca 250-816-2444
If you have any questions...

25. What have we tried?
What strategy might you try?

26. Staff Engagement Data Driven Inquiries
Marcy
Wed –McGirr(Gregg) and Thursday-Forest Park (Sean)
Cinnabar Valley

27. What have we tried?
What strategy might you try?

28. NLPS Inquiry Themes Are they focused on student learning?
Are members committed to trying new approaches?
Are they recurring in ongoing cycles?
Are the impacts measured by evidence?

29. PLC Survey

30. NOIIE

31. Next Meeting 12:30-3:00pm @ NDSS Meeting Room A
April 10th
April 11th