PLC+Information+-+Getting+Started

= __**Overview of PLC Work**__ =

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__PLC Information and Tools__
__//Shift from Teaching to Learning//__

Using Google Docs to Support your PLC

//__Organization of Teams__//

__//Team Effectiveness//__

__//Collaborative Commitments/Norms//__

__//SMART Goals//__

__//Action Plans//__

//__PLC Time - analyzing data__//

//__Team Minutes/Summaries -__// //__Monitoring PLC's__//

//__Loose and Tight__//

//__Assessing Progress__//

__**Articles**__

__**PLC Must Reads**__
 * 1) Professional learning communities at work: Best practices for enhancing student achievement - DuFour and Eaker (1998)
 * 2) On excellence in teaching - edited by Marzano (2010)
 * 3) The collaborative administrator: Working together as a professional learning community - 2008 - Solution Tree Press
 * 4) Raising the bar and closing the gap: Whatever it takes - DuFour, DuFour, Eaker and Karhanek (2010)
 * 5) On common ground: The power of professional learning communities - edited by DuFour, Eaker, and DuFour (2005)
 * 6) Leading professional learning communities: Voices from research and practice - Hord and Sommers (2008)
 * 7) The power of SMART goals: Using goals to improve student learning - O'Neill and Conzemius (2006)
 * 8) Learning by doing: A handbook for professional learning communities at work - DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, and Many (2006)
 * 9) Revisiting professional learning communities at work: New insights for improving schools - DuFour, DuFour, and Eaker ((2008)
 * 10) Getting started: Reculturing schools to become professional learning communities - Eaker, DuFour, and DuFour (2002)
 * 11) Whatever it takes: How professional learning communities respond when kids don't learn - DuFour, DuFour, Eaker and Karhanek (2004)
 * 12) Leading learning communities: Standards for what principals should know and be able to do - National Association of Elementary School Principals (2004)
 * 13) Schools as professional learning communities: Collaborative activities and strategies for professional development - Robers and Pruitt (2003)
 * 14) The collaborative teacher: Working together as a professional learning community - Edited by Solution Tree (2008)
 * 15) 36 tools for building spirit in learning communities - Williams (2006)