Professional Learning Community Resources
Professional learning communities can support the long-term professional learning efforts in your school or district. Learn more about professional learning communities with these new resources from ASCD.
Exploring Formative Assessment (The Professional Learning Community Series)
Susan Brookhart
Use this handy guide to get your PLC engaged, energized, and ready to implement formative assessment. Everything you need to organize and run your PLC—including agendas, schedules, handouts, and background readings—is included. With enough materials for seven sessions total, you can focus your PLC on all of the critical issues related to formative assessment, including
- Defining formative assessment
- Sharing goals for student learning
- Listening to students and providing effective feedback
- Encourage student thinking and reflection
- Using formative assessment in instructional planning
Easy-to-use charts, checklists, and templates support every step of getting started and keeping your PLC on track.
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Exploring Differentiated Instruction (The Professional Learning Community Series)
Cindy Strickland
Use this handy guide to get your PLC engaged, energized, and ready to implement differentiated instruction. Everything you need to organize and run your PLC—including agendas, schedules, handouts, and background readings—is included. With enough materials for 10 sessions, you can focus your PLC on all of the critical issues related to differentiated instruction, including
- Getting started with DI
- Defining what good differentiation is
- Establishing routines that support differentiation
- Using flexible grouping, curriculum, instruction, and formative assessment in a differentiated classroom
Easy-to-use charts, checklists, and templates support every step of getting started and keeping your PLC on track.
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Protocols for Professional Learning (The Professional Learning Community Series)
Lois Brown Easton
Once you understand the rationale for a professional learning community and know the steps to setting one up, you still need some really good plans for how to use your PLC to explore topics and solve problems. That’s where this handy guide comes in with 16 different protocols for facilitating PLC conversations and activities. Whether the purpose of your PLC is to examine student work, explore instructional practice, address problems, or engage your colleagues in discussion, each protocol includes everything you need to ensure results:
- Group structures and processes that ensure deep exploration of ideas.
- Conversation guidelines that ensure dialogue is safe and effective.
- Facilitated steps with suggested time allotments.
- Questions, rubrics, and tools for evaluating the effects of your PLC.
- Tips for helping a PLC facilitator plan for and carry out a great meeting.
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