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CANSustaining PLC at Work® Model Agenda
Luis F. Cruz
Transformational Leadership: Effectively Addressing Resistance to PLC Process Implementation
As a result of the pandemic, inequities revealed nationwide beg the question, Are we really all in this together? Since schools do not exist in a vacuum and have inherited social inequities, educators must embrace bold leadership approaches to ensure high levels of learning for all.
Heather Friziellie
Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes in Elementary Schools
Schools that function as PLCs must ultimately do two things: 1) build a collaborative culture to promote continuous adult learning, and 2) create structures and systems that guarantee students additional time and support for learning when they need it. After examining the key components of systematic intervention and enrichment, participants examine protocols and criteria to assess their own schools’ responses and an action-planning template for next steps in raising the bar and closing the gap in the local context.
Mike Mattos
Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes in Secondary Schools
If the fundamental purpose of being a professional learning community is to ensure all students learn at high levels, then there must be time embedded during the school day to provide students extra time and support to succeed. In this session, Mike Mattos provides real examples showing how to create time for supplemental and intensive interventions.
Mike Mattos
Taking Action: How to Create a Highly Effective, Multitiered System of Supports
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators face an unprecedented challenge: how to close the learning gaps created by months of school closures and uneven access to learning opportunities. In this breakout, Mike Mattos discusses specific steps that schools can take to create a highly effective, multitiered system of supports to target learning gaps and show how the PLC at Work process creates the larger, schoolwide framework required to successfully intervene.
Maria Nielsen
The 15-Day Challenge: Win Quick, Win Often!
This interactive session establishes, reboots, or re-energizes the work of collaborative teams. Schools nationwide are using this simple learning-assessing process to connect the dots of a PLC. Maria Nielsen helps teams see the big picture of a PLC and put it all together in a recurring cycle of collective inquiry. The 15-day challenge is a practical way to bring the PLC process to life.
Regina Stephens Owens
Transformed People Transform People
Becoming a PLC requires that we become learners and embrace collective responsibility as we commit to continuous improvement. Transformational learning is a matter of belief. What we believe about people impacts every process and procedure we deploy. Educators deserve both a life and a career. Let’s design environments and experiences that ensure they learn. Regina Stephens Owens discusses the essentials required to develop a community of learners and a culture of collective responsibility.
Sarah Schuhl
The Time Is Now: The Journey Awaits
Is your system overwhelmed with data? Using protocols to transform data into information is an efficient and effective way to achieve improved results. Participants examine tools that empower teams to use data to drive instruction, impact student learning, and identify specific processes to meet district needs.
Jeanne Spiller
Protocols for Results: Using Data Discussions to Lead to Higher Levels of Learning for All
The first step in the never-ending journey of continuous improvement of a PLC at Work is building a strong foundation on the three big ideas: learning, collaboration, and results. The second step is doing that same work over and over and over again. In this keynote, Eric Twadell highlights the work that Adlai E. Stevenson High School (the “birthplace of the PLC at Work process”) has done to stay focused on the fundamental components of their PLC at Work culture and drive a steady increase in student learning and achievement.
Eric Twadell
Relentless: Initiating and Sustaining the PLC at Work Process
The first step in the never-ending journey of continuous improvement of a PLC at Work is building a strong foundation on the three big ideas: learning, collaboration, and results. The second step is doing that same work over and over and over again. In this keynote, Eric Twadell highlights the work that Adlai E. Stevenson High School (the “birthplace of the PLC at Work process”) has done to stay focused on the fundamental components of their PLC at Work culture and drive a steady increase in student learning and achievement.
