1. ONE EDUCATIONAL UNIT, ONE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY
ESU 15 - Paul Calvert & Kelly Erickson

2. Educational Service Unit 15

3. 9 School Districts *Chase County *Dundy County/Stratton
*Hayes Center (112)
*Hitchcock County
*Maywood
*McCook (1,500)
*Medicine Valley
*Southwest
*Wauneta/Palisade

4. Singletons

5. Solution Tree
Professional
Learning
Communities

6. 3. Are we using data to make our decisions?
3 Big PLC Ideas
1. Are we impacting learning?
2. Are we collaborating?
3. Are we using data to make our
decisions?

7. Teaching my dog to speak Chinese...

8. SHIFT:
Focusing on Learning
instead of
Focusing on Teaching

9. RIGHT WORK???? - Solution Tree
1. What is it we want our students to learn?
2. How will we know if each student has learned it?
3. How will we respond when some students do not learn
it?
4. How can we extend and enrich the learning for students
who have demonstrated proficiency?

10. Best Practices Story - by Rick DuFour
Incisions in the cornea.
Remove a small slice.
Flap replaced.
6 month recovery
Lasik Eye Surgery
Laser
10 Min procedure
Take a nap - recovery

11. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over
Is Change Necessary?
“Insanity is doing the same
thing over and over
and expecting a different
result.”
Albert Einstein

12. ONCE per semester face to face
*Every Grade
*Every Subject
*All 9 School Districts

13. Narrow the Instructional Focus
Standards:
1 inch deep and
a mile wide.

14. Essential
Learnings

15. UNPACKING STANDARDS Learning Essentials Effective Lessons
What do students
need to be able
to do? .

16. Google Docs
Sharing
Best
Practices
“What I want from the team?”

17. Google Docs

18. TECHNOLOGY FOR PLC’S Google Docs Google + Google Hangouts
Google Community

19. COMMON LANGUAGE
ROBERT
MARZANO
*INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

21. AQuESTT for Nebraska Tenet # 1 College and Career Ready (Standards)
Tenet # 2 Assessment (NeSA, MAPS, common formative)
Tenet # 4 Educator Effectiveness (Evaluation & Marzano)
Tenet # 5 Transitions (all subjects and grade level teachers)
Tenet # 6 Educational Opportunities and Access
(Blended Learning)

22. PLC - Continuous Topics
*Instructional Strategies (Marzano)
*Essential Learnings
(all PLC’s & new standards)
*Unpacking Standards
*Most Effective Lessons
*Google

23. Future PLC Topics *Common Formative Assessments
*RTI (Response to Intervention)
*Blended Learning
*Differentiation

24. Questions