1. Finding Our Place
School Librarians and Professional
Learning
#iasl12 Communities
2. A Journey
Today’s Learning Intentions
– understand the components and importance of a
professional learning community
– compare current practice in your building/district to the
components
– locate viable pathways for embedding yourself in the
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work of PLCs.
3. “The PLC label has proceeded the concept”
Shirley Hord
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4. “The term (PLCs) has been used so
ubiquitously that is in danger of losing
all meaning” - Richard DuFour
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6. Current thinking?
“Professionals caring for and working to
improve student learning together, by
engaging in continuous collective learning of
their own” – Andy Hargreaves
8. PLCs are student focused.
“Teachers in the more effective schools made all decisions
based on what was best for students, as opposed to what
was easiest for teachers.”– Todd Whitaker Seven Simple
Secrets
9. PLCs are student focused
• What do we want each student to learn?
• How will we know when each student has learned it?
• How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty
in learning?”
- DuFour
13. •Focus on Teaching and Learning
•Nurturing a Collaborative Culture
•Planning and working strategically
•Teaming with other learning specialists
- Allison Zmuda
14.
15. RTI Formative
Assessments of
Student Learning
Summative
Portfolios
17. Best
Practices
EDI UbD
Lesson Design
Inquiry Concept
Based
18. Data
Team
Leading /
Planning
PD
Teacher Leadership
1:1
initiatives
19. Components of PLCs (Hord)
Shared Shared and Collective Supportive Shared
Beliefs, Supportive Learning Conditions Personal
Values, and Leadership and Its Practice
Vision Application
Focus on Administrators What the Structural Community
student and faculty community Factors – members
learning hold shared decides to time, place, give and
which is power and learn and resources, receive
informed by authority for how they will and policies feedback that
faculty’s making learn it in Relational – informs their
own decisions order to Human and individual
learning impact intrapersonal improvement
students development / and the
needs needs organization
20. Components of PLCs (Hord)
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Shared Shared and Collective Supportive Shared
Beliefs, Supportive Learning Conditions Personal
Values, and Leadership and Its Practice
Vision Application
Focus on Administrators What the Structural Community
student and faculty community Factors – members
learning hold shared decides to time, place, give and
which is power and learn and resources, receive
informed by authority for how they will and policies feedback that
faculty’s making learn it in Relational – informs their
own decisions order to Human and individual
learning impact intrapersonal improvement
students development / and the
needs needs organization
21. Where to Begin?
Finding connections to your
practice.
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22. Shared Beliefs, Values, and Vision
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28. Finding Our
Place
Ernie Cox
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Twitter: erniec
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School Librarians and Professional
Learning
Communities
Editor's Notes
Back history – Wake county - St. Timothy’s School – helped to establish PLCs from the ground up. I was finding good collaboration with a few teachers. School wide it was more uneven. Student were leaving with uneven learning in the vital areas that we teach Interaction with board around the need for professional learning time embedded in the school day. Iowa City – attempts to organize district wide PLCs …floundered . Flexible adminstrator but structural limitations were large and appeared to be slow to change. Iowa City was eye opening and created a new sense of urgency to really ramp up my teaching practice.
Enter the one print hand out I’ve provided. – upload document to drop box!! And image of ppt slide.
