What is a Professional Learning Community (PLC)?

 

A PLC is a group of educators committed to:

 

• ensuring that students learn

• nurturing a culture of collaboration

• focusing on results

 

It is not a program or a meeting; it's a community engaged in a process.

 

It involves recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students that the members serve.

 

Members work together to clarify exactly what each student must learn, monitor each student’s learning on a timely basis, provide systematic interventions that ensure students receive additional time and support for learning when they struggle, and extend and enrich learning when students have already mastered the intended outcomes.  (source)

 

Here at BHS, we will use the Classroom-focused Improvement Process (CFIP) to guide most of our work in PLCs. 

 

Use these tools to help your PLC function effectively:

• All Things PLC Tools & Resources

• National School Reform's Protocols

• School Reform Initiative's Protocols