Why PLC at Work®?
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are schools that empower educators to work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.
At the heart of the PLC at Work process are four critical questions that drive the daily actions of every team member:
- What is it we want our students to know and be able to do?
- How will we know if each student has learned it?
- How will we respond when some students do not learn it?
- How will we extend the learning for students who have demonstrated proficiency?
See how Fillmore United School District is transforming education with PLC at Work® in partnership with Solution Tree.
Embed key PLC practices and strategies in your school’s culture
With help from our experts, you will build collective capacity for continuous improvement and create clarity of purpose, a common vision, collective commitments, and agreed-upon goals to move your school or district forward.
Solution Tree helps leaders:
- Create a guiding coalition and introduce the PLC at Work process to all of your stakeholders
- Develop a shared mission, vision, collective commitments (values), and goals
- Build a sustainable infrastructure and communication process
- Draft a districtwide blueprint for achieving your learning outcomes
- Analyze your progress on district SMART goal attainment, alignment of resources, and evidence of a focus on results
Solution Tree helps teachers:
- Build a collaborative culture that is committed to collective inquiry, action research, and continuous improvement
- Lead all students to high levels of achievement by working in teams, not in isolation
- Develop a shared understanding of assessments, implement common formative assessments, analyze evidence of student learning, and use that evidence to learn from one another and respond to the individual needs of students
- Build a systematic process to provide additional time and support for students who are experiencing difficulty and to ensure every student has a clear path to deeper learning