Theory and Practice Topic
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Nuts and Bolts of PLCs | Al Bertani (RAPPS Instructional Team) discusses the structural as well as human resource conditions needed to build strong professional learning communities.
| Webinar Recordings
Journal Articles |
Starting a PLC in a Small School | Learn how Koliganek School in Southwest Region School District handled the challenges of building a PLC in a rural, small school setting. | Video clips
PowerPoint
Festival of Ideas Summary
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Growing Your PLC | Learn job-embedded strategies for growing and sustaining your PLC: study groups, examining student work, coaching, and action research. Five webinars presented by Al Bertani (RAPPS Instructional Team).
| Webinar Recordings
Journal Articles |
Transforming Your Administrative Meetings into a PLC | How should district leaders make the best use of the limited time that principals spend together? LKSD turned their "sit-and-get" administrative meetings into PLC teams--and found that they started getting more meaningful work accomplished.
| Video clips
PowerPoint
Festival of Ideas Summary |
Place-Based Education:
A PLC at Work
| Russian Mission School (LYSD) uses a PLC to develop place-based activities. Find out how teachers and community members move the classroom outside to learn from each other.
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Festival of Ideas Summary |
Processes and Protocols for Learning Teams
| At the 2011 Alaska School Leadership Institute Julia Payne-Lewis (RAPPS Instructional Team) provided protocols for implementing and supporting the effective use of PLCs. Explore these tools for moving teacher learning forward.
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