Step One: Create A Learning Community

“The powerful collaboration that characterizes professional learning communities is a systematic process in which teachers work together to analyze and improve their classroom practice. Teachers work in teams, engaging in an ongoing cycle of questions that promote deep team learning. This process, in turn, leads to higher levels of student achievement” (Dufour, 2004, p. 3).

Dufour, R. (2004). What Is a “Professional Learning Community”?, Educational Leadership, 61:8, pp 6-11, retrieved from http://www.simagis.org/prodev/documents/PLC.pdf

Key Steps:

• Getting Started
• Committing to a common vision
• Establishing norms
• Maintaining community
  

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