1. Shirley Jackson
Dr. Keith Pressey
Ashford Education 697
September 2, 2013

2. A PLC or Professional Learning Community
is an organization within a school designed
to help the staff to improve the
performance for all staff that touch the
lives of students.
What is a PLC?

3. “Professional learning communities operate
under the assumption that the key to
improved learning for students is
continuous job-embedded learning for
educators” (Dufour, et.al, 2006).
What Purpose Do PLC’s Serve?

4. Foundations For A
Successful PLC

5. WorkingTogether Effectively
Collaboration

6. Developing a Common Mission,
Vision, Values, and Goals
Work As One

7. “All Students Can Learn”
Focus on Student Learning

8. Can be Shared by Staff at All Levels
Leadership

9. Focus on Plans thatWill
ImproveThe Quality of
Education
OneVision

10. Celebration
Celebrate SmallVictoriesAsWell As Large…
Small Steps Make the Big Ones Possible.

11. Never give up plan for sustainability
Persistence

12. DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many (2006). Learning by Doing: A
Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™, pp. 2�4.
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