After several years of working on the PLC, we have come up with the following info graphic from Spring 2016:
(From 2012)A PLC or Professional Learning Community is defined below by our community after some initial discussion about our goals and approach. To fully understand what we hope to do, click on the link that follows. this link will take you to a rubric that identifies what K-12 does. We will do most of what you see on the first two pages adapting when necessary for college.
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Our group in 2012 came up with the following definitions of what a PLC is after discussing it at length:
| Level | PLC Defined |
| Beginning 1 | A PLC is a learning community formed to assist student learning by creating a team of teachers. The team works collaboratively to create procedures, to communicate, to share, and to reflect on students’ differentiated needs |
| Beginning 2 | A group of institutionally supported educators who come together to work toward the common goal of improving student learning by identifying essential learning goals, within a collaborative and structured forum. |
| Beginning 3 | PLC – A team of educators who commit to respectfully share, improve and activate classroom procedures, methods and materials for improved outcomes for all students. |
| Intermediate 1 | A PLC is a group of teachers collaborating to identify classroom practices that we can test and refine to try to achieve optimum learner results. These practices can be taught to and used by others for continuous improvement. |
| Intermediate 2 | A PLC is a collaborative group of teachers who share expertise on student needs; develop skill-appropriate learning activities; and continually review curricula in response to student assessment data. |
| Intermediate 3 | A team involvement to establish teaching goals and to identify Best Practices that best meet the students’ instructional needs. |
