Happy Professional Development Day! We hope you’ve got some great learning up lined up for the day.
If you are not already a member of a Professional Learning Community (PLC), you’re missing out. PLCs are one of the most effective ways to improve teaching and positively impact student achievement. ACPS is continuing our work around PLCs with exciting results.
All schools have built-in time for teacher collaboration throughout the school day. Teams have been working to unpack curriculum, plan effective lessons and to commonly assess and address the specific needs of all learners.
ACPS will continue our partnership with Learning Forward and Dr. Deborah Childs-Bowen, who has led sessions with schools across the division on how to strengthen their PLC practices through analyzing data, using protocols, and developing a deeper understanding of the stages of team development.
This year, Dr. Childs-Bowen will be in your schools and in your PLCs to support educators and offer guidance on how to continue to make PLCs meaningful for you and beneficial to your students.
PLCs follow a three-tiered approach:
- Sessions available to all schools around developing and strengthening PLCs across the school.
- Consulting and collaboration to specific schools.
- Targeted support for both leadership and teachers at the middle school level.
Teachers learn with and from each other as teams stay focused on the students in their own classrooms and their own professional learning needs. We are excited about the changes we’re seeing in our schools and our classrooms as a result of more educators engaging in PLCs and you will continue to see more of them as a key avenue for professional development.
Sign up for a PLC session in PLMS, course #14895.
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