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What Is A Professional Learning Community

A professional learning community, or PLC, is a group of educators that meets regularly to improve teaching skills and student academic performance through collaboration and sharing expertise. The core principles of a PLC are ensuring that students learn by focusing on learning outcomes rather than just teaching, creating a culture of collaboration, and judging effectiveness based on results to improve student achievement.

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What Is A Professional Learning Community

A professional learning community, or PLC, is a group of educators that meets regularly to improve teaching skills and student academic performance through collaboration and sharing expertise. The core principles of a PLC are ensuring that students learn by focusing on learning outcomes rather than just teaching, creating a culture of collaboration, and judging effectiveness based on results to improve student achievement.

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What Is a Professional Learning Community?

A professional learning community, or PLC, is a group of educators that


meets regularly, shares expertise, and works collaboratively to improve
teaching skills and the academic performance of students. The term is also
applied to schools or teaching faculties that use small-group collaboration
as a form of professional development. Shirley Hord, an expert on school
leadership, came up with perhaps the most efficient description of the
strategy: “The three words explain the concept: Professionals coming
together in a group—a community—to learn.”

What are the “big ideas” that represent the core


principles of professional learning communities?

Big Idea #1: Ensuring That Students Learn

The professional learning community model flows from the assumption that the core
mission of formal education is not simply to ensure that students are taught but to
ensure that they learn. This simple shift—from a focus on teaching to a focus on
learning—has profound implications for schools.

As the school moves forward, every professional in the building must engage with
colleagues in the ongoing exploration of three crucial questions that drive the work of
those within a professional learning community:
 What do we want each student to learn?
 How will we know when each student has learned it?
 How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?

Big Idea #2: A Culture of Collaboration

Educators who are building a professional learning community recognize that they must
work together to achieve their collective purpose of learning for all. Therefore, they
create structures to promote a collaborative culture.

Big Idea #3: A Focus on Results

Professional learning communities judge their effectiveness on the basis of results.


Working together to improve student achievement becomes the routine work of
everyone in the school. Every teacher team participates in an ongoing process of
identifying the current level of student achievement, establishing a goal to improve the
current level, working together to achieve that goal, and providing periodic evidence of
progress. The focus of team goals shifts.

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