Components of a Professional Learning Community
1. Ensuring Learning for All Students
2. Focus on Results
3. Relationships
4. Collaborative Inquiry
5. Leadership
In any effective school, leaders are required to promote supportive environments, foster
reflection, encourage risk taking, and challenge the status quo when it comes to student
learning. The principal plays an important role in setting the stage for PLCs that focus
on student learning. Principals should spend their energies on supporting environments
focused on teaching and learning. They need to build and maintain distributive
leadership models to sustain the professional learning. Such models allow teachers to
be leaders in the school (e.g., literacy and math coaches). Eaker, DuFour, and DuFour
identify teachers as “transformational leaders” as they are “in the best position to
transform students’ lives, motivate and inspire students, and get students to do things
they never thought they could do” (2002, p. 23).
6. Alignment
As professional learning communities continue to investigate research, delve into data,
monitor progress, and make programs transparent, an alignment of beliefs and effective
practices evolves. Alignment occurs when teachers from the same grade or division
collaborate to promote high levels of learning in each classroom. Networks can then form
– based on common needs and focus – to encompass various PLC groups and schools to
further build capacity and alignment.
Components of a Professional Learning Community1. Ensuring Learning for All Students2. Focus on Results3. Relationships4. Collaborative Inquiry5. LeadershipIn any effective school, leaders are required to promote supportive environments, fosterreflection, encourage risk taking, and challenge the status quo when it comes to studentlearning. The principal plays an important role in setting the stage for PLCs that focuson student learning. Principals should spend their energies on supporting environmentsfocused on teaching and learning. They need to build and maintain distributiveleadership models to sustain the professional learning. Such models allow teachers tobe leaders in the school (e.g., literacy and math coaches). Eaker, DuFour, and DuFouridentify teachers as “transformational leaders” as they are “in the best position totransform students’ lives, motivate and inspire students, and get students to do thingsthey never thought they could do” (2002, p. 23).6. AlignmentAs professional learning communities continue to investigate research, delve into data,monitor progress, and make programs transparent, an alignment of beliefs and effectivepractices evolves. Alignment occurs when teachers from the same grade or divisioncollaborate to promote high levels of learning in each classroom. Networks can then form– based on common needs and focus – to encompass various PLC groups and schools tofurther build capacity and alignment.
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