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Today’s Agenda Consensogram Welcome Norms Learning Targets District PLC Team Plus/Delta The Learning Centered Principal article Break Principals’ PLC Team Resources Video Clip Next Steps Consensogram 2

District PLC Team Megan Dixon, Secondary Math Coordinator Sharon Graves, Secondary ELAR Coordinator Lucretia Newton, Data Analysis Coordinator Troy Shepherd, District Science Coordinator 3

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Learning Targets * Participants will understand the PLC concepts and components vs. traditional planning structures. * Participants will understand the rationale and benefits of implementing a PLC culture. 5

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SMART Goals 7

8 Big Ideas from Traditional vs. PLC

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A Look at Your Campus + What components of PLC are in place on your campus? What cultural shifts have already been made? Δ What areas could be improved upon to facilitate a shift in culture? 10 1 minute

Think Ink Share 11 2 minutes “If [we] want to change and improve the climate and outcomes of schooling-both for students and teachers, there are features of the school culture that have to be changes, and if they are not changed, [our] well-intentioned efforts will be defeated.” (Eaker, DuFour, & Dufour, p. 9). 2 minutes

The Learning-Centered Principal Campus: 1. Why is focusing on instruction a misguided focus? 2. What systems are already in place which can easily shift the focus from teaching to learning? 3. What are the top two barriers to shifting from teaching to learning? 4. How do (will) you know your campus focuses on learning? 5. In what ways does your school actively support teachers being leaders of learning? Personal: 1. What practices currently occur that demonstrate your leadership of learning? 2. What practices can you improve upon to demonstrate your leadership of learning? 3. Do you see yourself as the school’s lead learner? Explain minutes End

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The Learning-Centered Principal AH-HA! 14 3 minutes

Creating a Strong Culture A strong group (school/district) establishes and embeds the mission, vision, values, and goals in its culture creating a strong foundation to withstand inevitable stresses and personnel changes. 15

PLC Planning Creating your: Vision Mission Values SMART Goals Norms 16

Vision/Mission/Values Mission- Why are we here? Why do we exist? Vision- What kind of school/district do we hope to become? (future) Values- How must we behave in order to create the kind of school we hope to become? (attitudes, behaviors, commitments) 17 2 minutes

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Teams Develop SMART Goals Establish a SMART Goal: Strategic and Specific Measurable Attainable Results- Oriented Time-Bound Goals- What steps are we going to take and when will we take them? (specific targets at various stages of improvement process- SMART) 19

SMART Goals 20

Develop Team Norms The standards of behavior by which we agree to operate while we are in this group = team norms 21

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The 3 Driving Questions of a PLC 1. What are they supposed to learn? (Instructional focus) 2. How will we know when they have learned it? 3. How will we respond when they need remediation or enrichment? 23

Resources PLC Handbook District PLC Committee Megan Dixon Sharon Graves Lucretia Newton Troy Shepherd 24

What we hope to avoid… 25

NEXT STEPS/COMMITMENT 26

REFERENCE Eaker, R., DuFour, R. & DuFour, R. (2002). Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree. 27