Power Up! Your PLCs - our newest professional learning offering

Power Up! Your PLCs is designed to help participants acquire the skills and knowledge needed to successfully implement professional learning communities (PLCs), whether the team is at the beginning of the process or has been working as a PLC for a long time. The key to becoming a successful PLC is the ongoing, intentional use of proven collaborative processes for focused, data-driven learning and improvement.

Learning Forward’s Professional Learning Standards are reflected throughout the design of Power Up! Your PLCs. Your teams will engage in professional learning and coaching to develop and enhance the very knowledge, skills and collaboration needed to be successful learning communities. Specifically, participants gain:

• an understanding of QLD’s Framework for Shared Responsibility and the foundation of a PLC
• knowledge of the fundamentals of launching and sustaining a PLC
• basic skills for running effective collaborative meetings
• experience using the S.M.A.R.T. Goal Process as a system for continuous improvement
• knowledge of how the process brings focus and alignment of best-practice research with teaching and learning
• activities for strengthening collaboration, reflection, and trust-building
• strategies for reaching consensus, resolving conflict, and celebrating success

The essential components of Power Up! Your PLCs include:

1. Collaborative reflection and an assessment of where your teams are in the PLC process
2. A day of training
3. Coaching for your teams (1/2 day per team, 6 times)
4. A post-training and coaching assessment and report

Each participant will receive training materials. Each team will receive a copy of QLD’s acclaimed desktop companion, The Handbook for S.M.A.R.T. School Teams (Conzemius & O’Neill). 

For details and scheduling contact Kiett Takkunen using the information at the bottom of this page or as shown on the attachment below.

     . . . educators must create a results orientation in order to know if students are learning and to respond appropriately to their needs. They must be hungry for evidence of student learning and use that evidence to drive continuous improvement of the PLC process. In order to bring this idea to life . . . every member of the organization works collaboratively with others to achieve SMART goals . . .                         (DuFour & Marzano in Leaders of Learning)