PLC meetings can be powerful professional learning with meaningful classroom impacts, with the right supports.
PLC Services
Both Classroom Innovations and Making Sense of Student Work prioritize teachers’ building their collective self-efficacy — their belief that they are the primary factor in boosting their students’ achievement.
Leading a Making Sense of Student Work PLC
- Remote | ~90 min
- For teacher leaders, coaches, administrators, and professional learning providers
Prepare teacher leaders to support and lead PLC meetings using the Making Sense of Student Work protocol. Support for how to use the protocol in-person or remotely are provided.
Leading a Classroom Innovations PLC
- Remote | ~90 min
- For teacher leaders, coaches, administrators, and professional learning providers
Prepare yourself to support and lead PLC meetings using the Classroom Innovations protocol. Includes how to use the protocol in-person and remotely.
PLC Resources
NGSI: Classroom Innovations PLC Protocol
- For teachers, coaches, & leaders
This protocol supports professional learning communities in deepening their understandings of next generation science teaching and learning.
Making Sense of Student Work PLC Protocol
- For teachers, coaches, & leaders
This protocol supports professional learning communities in collaboratively analyzing student work and uncovering the value in high-quality formative assessment.
Energy for Hawks Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8
- For teachers and coaches
The “Energy for Hawks” task connects the concepts of energy and ecosystems, and requires students to think about how organisms get the energy they need to survive.
Massive Air Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8
- For teachers and coaches
The “Massive Air” task promotes student thinking around the concept of gases having mass.
Turtle’s Journey Sample Student Responses for grades 6–8
- For teachers and coaches
The “Turtle’s Journey” task allows students to grapple with making sense of distance-time graphs.
The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without collaboration our growth is limited to our own perspectives.
Robert John Meehan
Poet, Author, Teacher
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