As a guy who has written and presented and consulted on the power of PLCs for over a decade, I’m always surprised by how little learning teams do to monitor their own health. We write norms and outline a plan of action for our meetings
Over the summer, I had the chance to hear Eric Twadell — the Superintendent of Stevenson High School District 125 in Illinois — deliver a keynote at a Solution Tree PLC Institute. While his whole keynote was amazing, Eric shared a quote from a book
Recently, I stumbled across this fantastic Ken Williams video about Common Formative Assessment on the YouTube: Ken’s right, isn’t he. All too often, we use CFAs to “sort and select and move on to the next step” in our schools, forgetting that instructional reflection is
A few weeks back, I shared the story of Carl, a principal friend of mine who was frustrated with the pockets of innovation in his building. While he knew that good work was happening at all grade levels and in all subject areas in his
Let me start with a simple truth: There is no single decision made by the principal of a professional learning community more important than who to hire to fill vacancies on individual learning teams. After all, the teachers that you hire today are likely to
