Thursday, August 6, 2015

Starting with PLCs- TWEETS

Today was our first day back at school for professional development, and our focus for this year, across the entire district, is learning how to implement and continue to use PLCs, or Professional Learning Communities. So, our school, as did many of our feeder schools in our region, on our campus got together. As a member of our PLC team that was sent to Las Vegas, I had the wonderful opportunity in early June to go watch the DuFours and the rest of the team from Solution Tree present about what PLCs can do in schools.  Today, I got an opportunity to help that process continue at my school.

One of our activities was to create a poster about our journey through PLCs so far.  Each school was responsible for creating their own poster.  As we are a large comprehensive high school, doing this sort of activity with 70+ teachers is akin to throwing a handful of paint at a canvas and trying to make it the Mona Lisa.  We divided into groups based on department, completed the posters and displayed them to vote on.

Our English department won this one with this, which I think is pretty good. (I may have to make a graphic.)

T- Together
W-We
E- Educate
E-Every
T- Teen
S - Scholar

I thought that was pretty good!

The rest of the meeting was pretty rote, but we watched a few really amazing videos, including this amazing TED talk, which I think everybody should watch.  It's an educator called Rita Pierson, talking about how Every Student Needs a Champion.

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