“A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is an ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.”
(Learning by Doing, DuFour et al.)
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Work together to clarify exactly what each student must learn
Monitor each student’s learning on a timely basis
Provide systematic interventions that ensure students receive additional time and support for learning when they struggle
Extend learning when students have already mastered the intended outcomes
Educators must work collaboratively and take collective responsibility for the success of each student
Interdependent
Mutually accountable
Common goals
Members of a PLC recognize that all of their efforts must ultimately be assessed on the basis of results rather than intentions;
Participation in this process is not just for leaders, it is a responsibility of every member
Examine results to discover strengths and weaknesses to learn from each other.
1 | What do we want students to know and be able to do?
2 | How will we know when students have learned it?
Create common formative assessments (CFAs). Build common understanding of proficiency. Align CFAs to essential standards. Clarify conditions of administration of CFAs . Compare and analyze the data.
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3 | What will we do when students haven't learned it?
Plan systematic interventions within collaborative teams. Provide a timely response to all students. Differentiate to address individual student needs.
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4 | What will we do when students already know it?
Provide students opportunities for extension. Extend instruction. Differentiate to address individual student needs.
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Euharlee Kindergarten Math Collaboration
Cloverleaf 4th Grade Math Collaboration
Adairsville High Geometry Assessment Data Collaboration
An A-Team is a team of educators in which the members work interdependently to achieve common goals that directly impact student achievement. Members of an A-Team are willing and eager to learn from one another. An A-Team exemplifies the three big ideas of our Professional Learning Communities culture as they continually demonstrate a focus on learning, collaboration, and results.
Through observations and conversations with each team member, it is evident these teams uses the PLC process to work together with collective responsibility for student learning. They ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum for all first-grade students, use common formative assessments to monitor student learning, use common assessment data to improve teaching and learning practices, and support the RTI process by providing systematic interventions and enrichments for all students.
Woodland Middle - 8th ELA
Jennifer Mayer
Abbey Yohe
Cass Middle - 8th ELA
Stephanie Brant
Miller Barnett
Justin Carver
Megan Gannon
Jenna Johnson
Red Top Middle - 8th ELA
Lake Phillips
Joshua Rensch
Christie Taylor
Allie Ingle
Bartow County College and Career Academy - Health Care
Donna Mathias
Dr. Jhinora Pollard
Anne Rickman
Harry Wyche
Hamilton Crossing Elementary -
1st Grade
Juliane Johnson
Breanna Roberts
Jennifer Tasker
Debbie Philliber
Anna May
Adairsville Middle - 8th Science
Traci Newman
Kim Ruggles
Cass High - Geometry
Jason Coker
Lisa Doolittle
Audrey Ellison
Tyler Washington
Sierrah Woods
Bartow County College and Career Academy - US History
William Dooley
Mike Fitch
Meghan Johnson
Pine Log Elementary -3rd Grade
Nelia Card
Louise Gammon
Julia West
Adairsville High - Geometry
Dr. JoAnna Bartlett
Laura Turner
White Elementary -Kindergarten
Shelley Cromer
Abigail Smith
Shanna Witt
Haley Blackburn
Emmalie Cole
Woodland Middle- 7th ELA
Lucy Costello
Joley Neubert
Jody Taylor
Clear Creek Elementary
Beverly Hancock
Ashton Russell
Woodland High - Biology
Dana Hunt
Santiago Nava
Amber Phillips
Rachel Gwaltney
Jacob Selman
Adairsville High - Spanish
Amanda Nelson
Kaylie Noe
Joe Young
Emerson Elementary - 1st Grade
Suzanne Bennett
Chelsey Edgar
Shelley Harger
Emerson Elementary - 3rd Grade
Linda Garcia
Amber Graham
April Lanham
Janna Scheff
Euharlee Elementary - 5th Grade
Whitney Crumley
Stephanie Hardy
Catherine Hill
April West
Cloverleaf Elementary - 3rd Math
Annie Davidson
Sarah Beth Clayton
Amanda Jordan
Cass Middle - 6th Math
Laura Hayes
Torre Mortimer
Lisa Wilson
Whitney Bailey
Cass Middle - 7th Math
Kendra Gilliam
Rebecca Wright
Brent West
Bridget Durham
Adairsville Elementary - 3rd ELA
Gwynn Brookshire
Annie Powell
Brandie Smith
Emily Duggan
Adairsville Elementary - 3rd Math
Blaine Bishop
Ashley Greenway
Jess McMurdo
“A collection of teachers does not truly become a team until members must rely on one another to accomplish a goal that none could achieve individually.” DuFour et al. Learning by Doing
DuFour et al.
Learning by Doing,
