[MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities

To understand how a PLC looks in a school you should check out Solution Tree on the net. The training is wonderful ! ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to

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(like our writing center). -Original Message- From: MARY KRAMER mkra...@cbcsd.org To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 3:24 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities Our focus is always

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) or RtI groups. Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel -Original Message- From: hccarl...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:28:05 To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning

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Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities This sounds more like trying to integrate the subjects to help students see connections. This is a common practice at junior high so that students see how the different subjects are related. I see PLCs

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I am moving to a new grade level in the same school and my new team is piloting PLC's in our building. From my understanding, this is the way it will work. Our team consists of 5 teachers. One each language arts, math, science, social studies and 1 special education teacher (me). Our team

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I guess planning is one way you could do a PLC...but I think you lose the inquiry when you do it this way. We let the teachers generate questions of interest related mainly to students...we look at student data and research ways to improve learning. There must be lots of ways to do PLC.

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Hi Jennifer, Yes, but I think the original intent of PLC's is what you describe below. Elisa Elisa Waingort Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual Dalhousie Elementary Calgary, Canada The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. —Helen

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for. If it is not working, what other strategies should be in place to help the student/s make progress. Carol - Original Message - From: mrsjro...@aol.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:56:21 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning

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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities I guess planning is one way you could do a PLC...but I think you lose the inquiry when you do it this way. We let the teachers generate questions of interest related mainly to students...we look at student data and research ways

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This is exactly how we have been doing it for the past two years. I would like to have cross-grade level PLC's, I believe the conversations will be more meaningful and we can always share what we're doing with our team at our bi-monthly meetings. Elisa Elisa Waingort Grade 2 Spanish

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June, We have staff development for our entire staff once a week. It is led by the literacy strategists and the principal. Sometimes we spend half of our time studying a book. This year the k-2 group read RWM. We have PLC's once a week in grade levels that is led by either the literacy

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-service.com To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group' mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Sat, Jun 20, 2009 10:24 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities My experience with PLCs is that they work wonderfully on a VOLUNTEER basis. Don't MANDATE them

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My experience with PLCs is that they work wonderfully on a VOLUNTEER basis. Don't MANDATE them. -Michelle TG www.mrstg.com ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to

[MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities

I know that some of you have been involved in PLC's in the past. Would you share your experiences? I am moving grade levels next year and the team that I am joining is piloting PLC's in our building - maybe the district - not sure about that. I am trying to learning as much as I can before

[MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities

Hi June The past two years one of my colleagues and I have conducted a PLC on Writers Workshop. We had monthly meetings after school for an hour. The two of us had gone to Teacher's College to attend the week long session so we had a lot to share that first year as this was a new concept for