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)

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.

What challenges exist?

Top 2–3 priorities for this semester.

Like or comment on similar posts to cluster ideas.

How will roles rotate?

How will all voices be heard?

• 1 Mic Rule

• Timed Agenda

• Fist-to-Five

• Plus/Delta

Include strategies to make PLCs sustainable and prevent burnout.

• 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?

• 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.

Facilitator: KayLee

Timekeeper:

Commitment Tracker:

Executive functioning skills

• 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.

-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??

-Behavior

-Attendance

-New IEP updates

+Take turns providing training

-Changing nature of caseloads

-Fluctuation of files and numbers

• Stay on agenda

• Off topic spirals to ideas (not really off task)

• Focused

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

One potential group priority:

-Create micro goals

(how do we slow down the cheating?)

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.

-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

What does that look like?

*Teachers try to join?

2x a year

Christmas Service Project

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

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?)

*Come up with priorities first

*Give everyone an opportunity to lead

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.