Personal Learning Communities

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Find the latest research, articles, tools and other education resources for building a PLC - professional learning community. Collaborate with teachers and administrators on our frequently updated blog, written by PLC and education professionals.

Great clip about moving and talking to UPS. Clarity proceeds competence.

Jim Collins is the author of Good to Great, Built to Last and How the Mighty Fall.

Begin with the End in mind

Great new insights from two experts committed to making moral purpose come alive in practice. Dufour and Marzano are deep, practical, and thorough. They call for collaboration that is not optional; rather, leaders are compelled to learn and be successful.

Richard DuFour, Ed.D., was a public school educator for 34 years, serving as a teacher, principal, and superintendent. He was principal of Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincoln- shire, Illinois, from 1983 to 1991 and superintendent of the district from 1991 to 2002.

A summative assessment gives a student a chance to prove what he/she has learned, but a formative assessment gives a student a chance to improve upon his/her learning.

n service to educators, the company synthesizes Dr. Marzano's scope of educational research, world-renowned for its breadth and depth, into accessible components teachers and principals can use for concrete gains in student learning. Continuous action research ensures MRL strategies are always at the forefront of best practice.

MasteryConnect - Share common assessments aligned to standards, connect in a professional learning community, and track student performance. TX state standars are uploaded here too.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only nationally representative assessment of what students know and can do in various subjects, reported in the Nation's Report Card. Each subject area is listed and it will give you assessment ideas.

Contributions from educators across PARCC states sharing their experiences implementing the Common Core State Standards "in their words."

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Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run. Teachers control the questions and games on their laptop, while students respond and interact through their smartphones/laptops.

Easy to use, interactive feature engages students, and provides formative data in the classroom to drive instruction. Update your app and try it out! A perfect combination of technology in the classroom: Student interactivity together with timely data at the time of instruction to track progress.

Visit us at http://www.solution-tree.com Presenter and author Rick DuFour talks about the importance of professional learning communities and the biggest obstacles a school faces when transitioning to a PLC.

A team is a group of people working interdependently to achieve a common goal for which members are mutually accountable.

Great schools “row as one”; they are quite clearly in the same boat, pulling in the same direction in unison. The best schools we visited were tightly aligned communities marked by a palpable sense of common purpose and shared identity among staff-a sense of “we.”

Thomas Lickona and Matthew Davidson

The FirstClass suite of products is a rich collaboration platform which has been carefully crafted to support how people collaborate today, enabling users to work together more effectively and feel connected to each other and their organization.

Find lesson plans, classroom materials and resources from high-performing K-12 teachers. Share curriculum and connect with fellow educators around the world

Find the latest research, articles, tools and other education resources for building a PLC professional learning community. Collaborate with teachers and administrators on our frequently updated blog, written by PLC and education professionals.

S~Strategic and specific
M~Measurable
A~Attainable
R~Results-oriented
T~Time-bound

Guidelines
common ground
non-negotiables
rules of engagement
expectations
collective commitments
promises made as a team

CRCT Prep video by Centennial Arts Academy 5th graders! We're gonna ROCK this test! (soon to be on Teacher Tube)