Summer Leadership InstituteFacilitating PLCs

Linda Connor

August 9-10, 2012

Common Board ConfigurationDate: August 9-10, 2012

Benchmark: Teacher leaders will analyze the importance of facilitation within the setting of a professional learning environment.

Bell Ringer: Using a vis-a vis, place a check mark in the appropriate column of each survey question posted around the room .

Essential Question: How can facilitation make a PLC more effective?

Vocabulary: facilitator, norms, professional learning communities

Objective: Participants will explore the purpose of a facilitator(s) through protocols, sharing ideas, and how facilitators will help ensure the effectiveness of PLCs.

Agenda: •I Do: Debrief the outcomes of the survey•We Do: Make connections between effective learning communities and facilitators using two specific protocols•You Do: Reflect on purpose of protocols & need for a facilitator

Summarizing Activity: Essential Question ReflectionParticipant Scale

Homework: My next steps are… (i.e. facilitate a PLC at my school site, register for TOT/ Facilitating PLCs, etc.)

Learning Goal: Teacher leaders will explore how to encourage Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to be self-managed through facilitation.

Lake County SchoolsVision Statement A dynamic, progressive and collaborative learning community

embracing change and diversity where every student will graduate with the skills needed to succeed in postsecondary education and the workplace.

 Mission Statement The mission of the Lake County Schools is to provide every student

with individual opportunities to excel.

Lake County Schools is committed to excellence in all curricular opportunities and instructional best practices. This focus area addresses closing the achievement gap, increased graduation rate, decreased dropout rate, increase in Level 3 and above scores on the FCAT, achieving an increase in the number of students enrolled in advanced placement and dual enrollment opportunities and implementing the best practices in instructional methodology.

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21st Century Skills Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap

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1. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving2. Collaboration and Leadership3. Agility and Adaptability4. Initiative and Entrepreneurialism5. Effective Oral and Written Communication6. Accessing and Analyzing Information7. Curiosity and Imagination

High Effect Size Indicators

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“The Department’s identified set of indicators on high effect size instructional and leadership strategies with a causal relationship to student learning growth constitute priority issues for deliberate practice and faculty development.”

-Florida Department of Education, 2012

Learning Goal with Scales

Tracking Student Progress

Established Content Standards

Multi-tiered System of Supports

Clear Goals Text Complexity ESOL Students

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School LeadershipHigh Effect Indicators

Classroom TeacherHigh Effect Indicators

Feedback PracticesFacilitating Professional

LearningClear Goals and

Expectations Instructional ResourcesHigh Effect Size Strategies Instructional InitiativesMonitoring Text

Complexity Interventions Instructional AdaptationsESOL Strategies

Attributes of a Learning Community1) Jot some notes relating to a personal experience in

a learning community that you know was a place

of positive learning.

2) Share your experience, one at a time, with your

teammates.

3) Find the commonalities of your experiences and

record them in the circle.

4) Teams share commonalties with the whole group.

Microlabs

Groups of 3s or 4s

Read guidelines and confirm adherence to

guidlines with teammates

Microlabs

1) Why did you decide to become a teacher

(or an educator)? What drew you into this

profession?

Microlabs

2) Why do you stay in the education field?

What keeps you coming back, year after

year?

Microlabs

3) What matters to you in your work? What is

at the heart of what you do?

Microlabs

4) What will you go to the wall for in your

work? Explain.

Microlabs

1) What were the advantages and/or

disadvantages of structuring this activity?

2) How might your conversations have been

different had we not used this protocol?

3) When might you use this protocol?

Making ConnectionsAnalyze the attributes of our Positive

Learning Experiences and the structure

of the Microlab Experience to determine

what connections you find between the

two.

Essential Question How can facilitation make a PLC more

effective?

Plan to take TOT/Facilitating PLCs

Facilitate a PLC on my campus

_______________________________

My next steps are…

Participant Scale and Reflection

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0-Not Using

•No understanding or implementation steps taken away

1-Beginning

•Little understanding and inconsistent implementation steps taken away

2-Developing

•Moderate understanding and implementation steps taken away

3-Applying

•Consistent understanding and implementation steps taken away along with monitoring componets for effective execution

4-Innovating

• In addition to criteria of Applying, enhanced understanding, implementation, monitoring, and execution take aways

Essential Question: How can facilitation make a PLC more effective?