PLC Strategies and Tools for Formative Assessment

The Situation:

• Not True PLCs
  
• No Exit Slips
• No Curriculum Map
• No Common Assessments
• No Learning Targets

Vision:  PLC meetings are the vehicle...

• Standards/Strategies Focus:  Cycle of Planning/Assessing/Adjusting
• Common formative assessments at least once a week
• One main standard for math
• One main standard for reading
  
  
• Student Success Focus:  Collaborative Problem Solving for Students
• Discussions, not presentations of data

Big Challenge: 

Fitting it all in during a once a week meeting

• Academic RTI meetings (targeted on specific students)
• Monitoring collection of RTI data
• Balancing Benchmark Data Discussion with Daily/Weekly Formative Assessments
  
  
• PLC Schedule on Living Calendar
• Balancing "ongoing learning" with data discussions
  

To meet all the challenges:

• Departmentalization (times when you want team together, times when you want subjects) and/or Meetings getting hijacked by behavior...
• Regular Specials Schedule
• Wacky Wednesday for Classroom Teachers
  
•  Behavior Meetings (MTSS)

The Results:

Planning Protocol, Rather than Fancy PDSA - Turn it in on Mondays, attach exit slip

Agenda

Schedule 

Scoreboard

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Session Survey