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**What is a PLC?** Although there is no universal definition of a PLC (Stoll et al., 2006; Williams, Brien, Sprague, & Sullivan, 2008), the following definitions offer a range of ways to describe a PLC:  [| http://allthingsplc.info/]
 * An ongoing process through which teachers and administrators work collaboratively to seek and share learning and to act on their learning, their goal being to enhance their effectiveness as professionals for students’ benefit (Hord, 1997)
 * A school culture that recognizes and capitalizes on the collective strengths and talents of the staff (Protheroe, 2008).
 * A strategy to increase student achievement by creating a collaborative school culture focused on learning (Feger & Arruda, 2008).
 * Team members who regularly collaborate toward continued improvement in meeting learner needs through a shared curricular-focused vision (Reichstetter, 2006).
 * A group of people sharing and critically interrogating their practice in an ongoing, reflective, collaborative, inclusive learning-oriented and growth-promoting way (McREL, 2003).
 * Educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, 2006).
 * An inclusive group of people, motivated by a shared learning vision, who support and work with each other to inquire on their practice and together learn new and better approaches to enhance student learning (Stoll, Bolam, McMahon, Thomas, Wallace, Greenwood et al., 2005).

**What a PLC is NOT** media type="youtube" key="mi0c6mH4eEs" width="233" height="192" align="center"

**Tools for Professional Learning Communities**:

Protocols to Deepen Understanding of Text

Protocols to Deepen Understanding of Student Work

Protocol to Understanding Essentials in Standards __**Step One:**__ Read through each cluster of reading standards and highlight the standards and components of the standards that fall within one or more of the above questions. Highlight these areas individually. __**Step Two**__: Each teacher shares what he or she deemed essential within each cluster of standards. **__Step Three__**: Create a team summary that encompasses what students will learn within each cluster. These summaries can be for teachers to frame lessons, text based questions, and assessments as well as created for students to give direction and purpose to the instruction and assessment they encounter within their classrooms.
 * Endurance: What within the standards gives students the knowledge and skills that will remain long after the assessments?
 * Leverage: What within the standards are applicable to various other academic disciplines?
 * Readiness: What within the standards hold essential knowledge and skills students must acquire to be successful in classes beyond?

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**Articles and Research for study**
kellly Gallagher articles: Food for Thought

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