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Professional Learning Communities
Effective Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) can improve student achievement. These collaborative structures allow teachers to work together to improve student learning and teacher effectiveness. Implementing effective PLCs can be challenging; however, there are resources available to help get them started. The resources in this ReadySearchTM provide access to general information on PLCs and implementation resources.
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Overview of Professional Learning Communities
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The Informed Educator: Implementing and Sustaining Professional Learning Communities in Support of Student Learning
What constitutes a professional learning community? How do school leaders create and sustain them? This Informed Educatoraddresses those questions. The benefits of professional learning communities include improvements in instructional practice and teacher leadership, which lead to positive changes in school culture and student learning. http://www.edreadysearch.org/search/item_preview.cfm?assetid=27577 |
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Professional Learning Communities
This Web site provides general information on PLCs including defining elements, literature and research, examples of schools using PLCs, and supports needed to make PLCs work. http://www.centerforcsri.org/plc/index.html |
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Professional Learning Communities
This overview of professional learning communities discusses what a PLC is, the rationale behind PLCs, and strategies for implementing PLCs. In addition, suggested readings and sample discussion protocol are included. http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/resources/proflearn/ |
Implementing PLCs
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Professional Learning Communities: Professional Development Strategies That Improve Instruction
This document provides information garnered from the Annenberg Institute’s work with schools in the process of implementing PLCs. It includes a literature review of the effects of PLCs, a description of PLCs, lessons learned from the Annenberg Institute’s research, and an overview of their current work. http://www.annenberginstitute.org/pdf/ProfLearning.pdf |
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All Things PLC
This Web site provides extensive resources on PLCs, including articles, tools, worksheets, and blogs. In addition, a “PLC Locator” allows the visitor to find schools with similar characteristics that have formed PLCs using the following criteria: school level, enrollment, and percentage of students participating in the free lunch program. Much of the information at the site refers to the work of Rick and Rebecca DuFour, authors of Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work. http://www.allthingsplc.info/ |
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Collaboration: An Essential Key to Student Achievement
This article examines teacher collaboration. Included is a list of discussion topics to help keep things rolling at teacher meetings. Some of the suggestions for discussion include common assessments, active learning strategies, anchoring activities, technology integration, checking for understanding, and examining student work. http://www.justaskpublications.com/images/stories/ask/pdf/newsletters/jfta/2007/jfta_nov_2007.pdf |
