1. Ways to Promote Teacher- to-Teacher Growth Tori Gallo

2. Professional Learning Communities A model used to ensure student learning caused by a shift from focusing more on learning than teaching All members of the school should be active in order to be most beneficial Members respond to students with learning difficulties directly and help is based on intervention rather than remediation Results from common assessments are used to judge the effectiveness of set goals

3. Communities of Practice People who share a passion for something they do and want to learn to do it better through collaboration A global view of Professional Learning Communities Members have shared activities and relationships Meet and see each other regularly

4. Critical Friends Group 8-12 people who have similar interests and beliefs Are intended to form Professional Learning Communities Meet monthly to discuss relevant and current topics in their jobs and the field of education and turn these ideas into practice

5. Frameworks for Helping Disciplinary Issues Professional Learning Community- use to gather data from other teacher’s behavioral concerning students to see what type of interventions have worked for them Community of Practice- use to discuss techniques and share ideas with teachers of similar belief systems in hopes of decreasing behavioral issues Critical Friends Group- use to discuss and share ideas and strategies with teachers of similar interests and develop ways to put the ideas into practice in hopes of the ideas spreading school-wide

6. The One For Us Critical friends group is the one my teacher leadership group and I chose because we feel that our school is not strong enough to use the others quite yet We hope that by us (and a few others) joining together to strategize how to make the school a better place when it comes to correcting unwanted behaviors within the classroom, it will create a shift in our school and eventually a strong PLC will start to form We also plan to use data to help make this group stronger and lead it into becoming a PLC

7. References DuFour, R. (2004). What is a professional learning community?. Educational Leadership, 61(8), 6-11. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational- leadership/may04/vol61/num08/What-Is-a-Professional-Learning- Community¢.aspx http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational- leadership/may04/vol61/num08/What-Is-a-Professional-Learning- Community¢.aspx Ban, Eric. (n.d.) Communities of Practice (Transcript to Presentation 3).