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AllThingsPLC » A Delicate Dialogue On Data
A great piece from the All Things PLC blog regarding how to approach delicate conversations about data results at the school level. Contrasts nicely to the kinds of poor data conversations that are happening all over America!
AllThingsPLC » Student Grouping in a PLC
An interesting DuFour piece about student grouping and an argument against tracking or ability grouping. My challenge is that I can often be overwhelmed by the broad range of abilities in my classroom.
Drape's Takes: Sharing Anchors Community
A neat @ddraper post centered on the idea of sharing as an anchor for community building. Uses quotes from Chapter 2 of Shirky to spark conversation on the ways that digital tools can be used to facilitate sharing.
The Tempered Radical: Efficient Sharing in a Learning Community
An attempt to describe the ways that my learning team is using Delicious and Pageflakes to organize the sharing that we do as a group.
21st Century Learning: What Adds Community Value?
A great @snbeach bit on the characteristics of digital learning communities and the important role that they can play in teacher professional development. Great for supporting thinking around digital tools and professional learning communities.
Bending the Elements in Education: Structures v. Processes
An interesting post on the tendency for schools to try to change structures----because they're easy to see and to address---than to try and change processes---which are far more complex and require greater change.
Raise Your Hands (Techlearning blog)
A great Ryan Bretag post on the importance of teachers engaging in a collaborative culture with others and the need to embrace new learning every day---no excuses. The best part of the post are the embedded links to other interesting reads.
The Role of an Elective Teacher in a PLC
The DuFour's on elective teachers in a professional learning community
Team SMART Goals vs. Smart Students
Another DuFour read that tackles the idea that teachers are the key to improved student achievement in classrooms as opposed to the widely held notion that results will always vary depending on the group of students a teacher inherits.
What’s the Difference Between a PLC, a Collaborative Team, and a Task Force?
DuFour on the difference between collaborative PLTs and district wide task forces.
The Tempered Radical: I Finally Drank the Kool-Aid!
An intereting article on the role professional learning communities can play in professional development
Education Week: Building Professional Learning Communities
A conversation with Rick DuFour, Anne Jolly and Becky DuFour on how to most effectively get PLCs off the ground and running.
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