7. National professional organization Faculty, staff, and administrators continuously seek and share learning and then act on what they learn; the goal of their actions is to enhance their effectiveness as professionals so that students benefit
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9. Collaborative Culture: through collaboration, ongoing collegial opportunities for talking about teaching, receiving feedback, designing together, and teaching each other, professionals achieve more
10. Focus on Examining Outcomes to Improve Student Learning: promote results-oriented thinking that is focused on continuous improvement and student learning
11. Supportive & Shared Leadership: leadership is shared and distributed among formal and informal leaders, and leadership capacity sustains the PLC
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13. Committee or Work Group PLC Adheres to a PLC program mission, values, and goals Topics of PLC grow from the member’s interests and values Each PLC develops learning objectives, utilizes research as basis for all work, assess the meeting of those objectives, and presents findings at various points along the journey PLC “lifetime” is often 2-3 or more years All the work in the PLC is specifically designed to develop the members and their practices in order to have a positive affect student learning Share information Awareness area discussions Make decisions Conduct research Informal structure
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15. Mission, Values, and Goals of the EMCC PLC Program, Mission, Values, & Goals for PLC Program
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