1. Building a Community of Practice
Linked Learning is a proven approach to education that combines college-focused academics, work-based learning, and intensive student supports. By centering high school around industry themes, learning becomes relevant. Students graduate with the skills and confidence to succeed in college, career, and life.
One reason is that Linked Learning answers the question “Why do I need to learn this?” and inspires students to work harder, dream bigger, and learn more by exposing them to previously unimagined career opportunities.

2. AGENDA PLC vs. Community of Practice – What’s the difference?
Self Assess
Action Plan – Next Steps for Leadership Meetings as a Community of Practice
Learning from Student Work
Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

3. WHAT IS A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY?
Ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve
IT IS NOT:
a program
an occasional event when colleagues meet to complete a task and then return to business as usual
Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

4. PLC- FOCUS ON LEARNING What do we want our students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
How will we respond when some students don’t learn?
How will we respond when students already know it?
Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

5. STRUCTURE OF A PLC Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

6. WHAT IS A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (COP)?
Members of a community of practice are practitioners dedicated to continuous improvement
Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

7. THREE BIG IDEAS Focus on Student Learning and Use of Data
Share Beliefs, Commitment and Common Practices
3) Collaborate effectively and turn words into action
Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

8. Community of Practice Continuum
Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

9. LEADERSHIP MEETINGS AS A C.O.P.
Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,

11. Leadership Meetings as a Community of Practice
Action planning

12. Learning From Student Work Protocol
Why look at student work?
Distribute Protocol
Practice – Sample Performance Task

13. Community of Practice Why do we need Linked Learning?
Because too many California high school students are not prepared to enter today’s workforce and excel. Our economy demands workers have some sort of postsecondary or technical training. Today, 59 percent of jobs require a postsecondary credential. By 2018, this figure will grow to 63 percent of all jobs, and that trend is likely to continue.
Source: Georgetown University, Help Wanted: Projections of Job and Education Requirements Through 2018,