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A Professional Learning Community is a team of educators working interdependently to ensure all students learn at high levels.

1. What do we want each student to learn?

2. How will we know when each student has learned it?

3. How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning

Post your team takeaways in this column.

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"It doesn't have to be bad to get better."

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"It doesn't have to be bad to get better."

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Roles

Facilitator: KayLee

Timekeeper:

Commitment Tracker:

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Explore protocol ideas and decide how your PLC will communicate effectively and sustainably.

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Post which protocols your team will commit to using:

1 Mic Rule

Timed Agenda

Fist-to-Five

Plus/Delta

Include strategies to make PLCs sustainable and prevent burnout.

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Protocol and Intro (3 min)

Communication & Protocols (5 min)

What is a PLC (5 min)

Reflect and Prioritize (3 min)

Set/Refine Norms (5 min)

Define Roles/Rotation (5 min)

Data/Priorities (8 min)

Commitments & Next Steps (7 min)

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Prompt Ideas:

List 10 effective protocols that can be used to structure and improve PLC meetings, ensuring active participation, clear communication, and equitable involvement from all team members.

Help me brainstorm protocols to use in PLCs to improve communication and ensure all voices are heard.

What are effective protocols for live PLC meetings held via Zoom to improve communication and ensure all voices are heard, especially when classes themselves are asynchronous?

What protocols can we use in live Zoom PLC meetings to improve communication and ensure all voices are heard, with specific attention to the needs and perspectives of special education teachers and staff?

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AI-Powered Tutors and Learning Activities

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Reflect on your current PLC practices. Post 2–3 notes on:

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Reflect on your current PLC practices. Post 2–3 notes on:

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What’s working well in your PLC?

What challenges exist?

Top 2–3 priorities for this semester.

Like or comment on similar posts to cluster ideas.

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Using decided upon protocols, review your team norms. Work with your team to decide on core values, what to keep, change, or add for your PLC meeting.

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Role Ideas: Facilitator, Note-Taker, Timekeeper, Norm Keeper, Action Tracker

How will roles rotate?

How will all voices be heard?

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1 Mic: Only one person speaks at a time; others can post on Padlet.

Timed Agenda: Each column has a set time.

Fist-to-Five: Quick agreement check.

Plus/Delta: Reflection at the end.

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AI Prompt: What are some ideas for different PLC roles?

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AI Prompt: What are some ideas for different PLC roles?

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Which student data is most useful for your PLC?

Which data do we already have but is duplicative or overwhelming?

Based on the data, what should be the top 2–3 priorities for your PLC for 2nd quarter/the school year?

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Please link your PLC template (Ctrl C + Ctrl V Vibes)

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Post a final takeaway or team commitment.

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Post a final takeaway or team commitment.

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Parking Lot Protocol
Designate a space for off-topic issues to keep meetings focused while ensuring all concerns are acknowledged.

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Recap at the end, review action items

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Tiers and behaviors

Executive functioning skills

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Come up with specific interventions to help relationship/behavior

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Come up with specific interventions to help relationship/behavior

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Etiquette Virtual PLC protocol During the Meeting tips:

Be prompt. Join the meeting on time, or a few minutes early.

Mute your microphone when you are not speaking.

Consider using earbuds, especially if there are other people around you. Be in the moment. Avoid the temptation to multitask (e.g. answer emails, respond to texts, etc.).

Speak clearly.

Use the chatbox to ask questions, post comments, etc.

Be proactive. Jump into conversations, pose questions, offer ideas, ask for clarifications, etc.

Listen to other participants. Try not to dominate the conversation and allow a little extra wait time due to the virtual barrier.

Ask for clarity on any tasks assigned to you.

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Critical risk students (low hanging fruit)

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-Required tutoring

-Individualized feedback

-Making sure students know the opportunities

-Let's brainstorm ways to help students not feel intimidated to meet with us or ask for help. (Jason has a good idea for next school year)

-Group tutoring??

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-Progress reports four times a year.

-Behavior

-Attendance

-New IEP updates

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SPED is designed to focus on student learning and results.

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Loom to give feedback & individualized responses 

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Loom to give feedback & individualized responses 

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The PLC doesn't need to only happen in a formal PLC meeting.

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Interventions for those not learning (home visits, math tutors, required tutoring

more feedback - loom, student specific feedback

one on one tutoring)

how to help students know to advocate for themselves

info on canvas pages & website for tutoring resources

stuck on P.T. - maybe invite a group session and explain - create loom to send to stuck

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What is best for that specific student? (KayLee brought up)

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+Take turns running the meeting

+Take turns providing training

-Changing nature of caseloads

-Fluctuation of files and numbers

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Working Well

Stay on agenda

Off topic spirals to ideas (not really off task)

Focused

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We are well-organized and focused. We have an agenda and stick to it.

Sometimes individual teachers have different priorities which can make it difficult to have group priorities.

One potential group priority:

-Create micro goals

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#1 Revamp for academic integrity

(how do we slow down the cheating?)

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Team Norms:

1. We will trust each other by assuming positive intent from all.

2. We will start each meeting on time, stick to a timed agenda, and end on time (or early).

3. We will be engaged in solution based discussions throughout the meeting.

4. We will maintain a positive environment by speaking of others as though they are in the room.

5. We will provide honest feedback.

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Norms

-Celebrations- connecting at a team

-Follow PLC Agenda

-Rotating Meeting Lead

-Open honest communication

-Assigned Note Taker

Want to Keep:

-Agenda, rotating lead, norms

Want to Change:

-Add more lunch meetings

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Home visits buddy up

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More team bonding

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"bond" ing

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Get to know OCs better and help the "us vs. them" divide/disconnect; increase relationships with faculty, staff, families, and students.

What does that look like?

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Every Wednesday 10-11:30

*Teachers try to join?

2x a year

Christmas Service Project

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Wednesday @ 10 - 11:30

Rob request - teachers join a few times a month for the first 10ish minutes

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Bev-- from PLC conference

One person shouldn't always be in charge

Rotated roles/simple agenda:

conduct

train

notes

time keeper

Individual PLC w/ OCs?

Student Concern meeting (1x a quarter?)

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Make Monthly Lunches a priority and include the OC's

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*Get to know OC's more

*Come up with priorities first

*Give everyone an opportunity to lead

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t-27i6mnPy5Nkc93js2vnc8FDFqmYc1Xs7ss3gJU5xs/edit?tab=t.0

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Thought for teacher PLC:

Can we ensure our agenda addresses teacher overwhelm? As in, let's make sure our highest priority (would we say it's curriculum?) is treated as the highest priority.

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We did our own tree this year.

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No pictures but fun time with family and lots of time for sleeping in. :-)

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No pictures but fun time with family and lots of time for sleeping in. :-)