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By Gayle Cantrell December 5, 2005 -- 05:05 PM
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This looks great! I would never have thought of aligning standards to challenge myself, but how logical. I am not quite understanding IVe. Could you detail the standards you're intending? Could be my interpretation is a little off.
Thanks,
Gayle
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By Barbara Bray January 8, 2006 -- 06:20 PM
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Gayle,
When looking at the National Staff Development Council standards, they don’t provide us with guidance in building a professional learning community. I have looked all over and could not find any that we can align to. We are creating a workshop on building PLCs and it became apparent really fast that there was no direction out there. We are planning on putting these in our standards database and want to align our course to them. Sure hope others agree that these work. We have shared these with other groups, have copyrighted them and encourage their use as long as whoever uses them cites them.
I. Supportive Environment: this is where anyone in the community gets the support they need from their team or others in the community
II. Organizational Culture: Being in this community allows you to grow personally and professionally. The community provides the resources and research for you to learn and become the best you can become.
III. Shared Leadership: Just like the geese who work as a team and share leadership as they fly, we found that a healthy team works best if everyone shares the role as leader. This is where the coaching and mentoring program could work if done right. More later on this.
IV. Individual Learning Goals: Every community is made up of individuals who have their own goals. If the community provides the resources and people to help each individual meet their goals, then the community wins.
V. Collective Responsibility and Accountability: Any community will grow if each member takes responsibility for its growth. This is where eCoaches encourage their team to participate but the each member needs to take responsibility for their own participation.
IVe may not fit for every PLC but we find that if members of the community created inquiry-based activities to share with other members it would encourage discussion. Any other ideas from anyone? thanks Barbara
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By Sheri Barker August 4, 2006 -- 09:00 AM
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Dear Barbara,
If our team were to create standards for a PLC, they would reflect the same content and tone of the ones the eCoach team has created. Maybe we will have some of our team members consider how to create a rubric that assists a PLC in determining how close they are to meeting these standards. This would also be the foundation for an evaluation of a team and the work they do together.
Thank you for this thoughtful tool.
Sheri :-)
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