1. PLC Team: Reflect & Revise
Tuesday, 9/27
1:30-2:38pm

2. Agenda for PLC Teams Welcome, Outcomes & Inclusion Reflection
Student Discourse
Data Protocol
Revise our practice: What will be our next steps as a PLC?

3. Outcomes For PLC Teams
Connect our focus on student discourse to important questions
Analyze & reflect on data collected in the past 2 weeks
Revise PLC goals and next steps

4. Inclusion
Think of a movie title that captures what your middle school experience was like.
“My middle school experience would be JAWS because every day at lunch was like ‘Am I going to be eaten alive today?’”

5. What: Student Discourse
The Golden Circle
What: Student Discourse
Using our own beliefs, what patterns do you see? What is our collective WHY?
How: Kagan Structures
Why

6. Random Acts of Improvement
How might a school-wide focus on student discourse support achievement in all classrooms?

7. Reflective Questions about Student Discourse and Our Why
How are these structures/strategies different from existing practices? (Are these real changes?)
Do all team members have a common understanding of these new structures/strategies? If yes, how was it developed? If no, how might common understanding be developed and deepened?
What additional knowledge and skills might educators need in order to implement these new approaches?
How might the team/school know if the new practices are being implemented?
How might the team/school know at what level the practices are being implemented?
What supports might the teachers need to “stay the course” (given it is the “right” course)? 

8. All Write Round Robin One reflective question per person
Everyone has 30 seconds to respond.
Pass clockwise
Everyone has 40 seconds to read & respond
Everyone has 50 seconds to read & respond
Process continues.

9. Norms for Collaboration
What might be some norms that will support us in discussing data as a team?

10. Protocol for Examining Data
Developed by the National School Reform Faculty Materials Purpose: This protocol is for use in guiding a group through analysis of data to identify strengths and problems of practice. Time keeper will be ___________. Thank you!

11. What parts of the data catch your attention?
Step 1
Pass out data to all participants and allow 2 minutes to review individually.
What parts of the data catch your attention?
(3 minutes share-out)
Note what you can see
Note important points that “pop out”
Look for patterns or trends that emerge
Note surprising or unexpected data

12. (2 min. pair share, 2 min. share out)
Step 2
What does the data tell us? What does the data NOT tell us?
(2 min. pair share, 2 min. share out)
Sentence Stems To Use:
A possible explanation for _____ is ________.
One might infer that _____ is happening from looking at ____.
One might infer that ___ is NOT happening from looking at __.

13. What good news is there to celebrate?
Step 3
What good news is there to celebrate?
(Round robin style, 4 min. total)
Sentence Stems:
One indicator of success in the data is _______.
Something to celebrate in the data is ______.
_______ in the data is good news because ______.

14. What are the problems of practice suggested by the data?
Step 4
What are the problems of practice suggested by the data?
(2 min take notes, 3 min share-out)
Questions To Deepen Thinking:
What issues might be raised about our classroom practices?
What are next steps for the school? For this group?
Is there other data we should look at?

15. Step 5
What are our key conclusions? What recommendations does this team have for improved instructional practice? (4 min share-out)

16. Our Next Steps
What will be our collective next steps for our PLC Team in Student Discourse? What other important next steps might our team focus on in the next PLC cycle (October)? Why?