PLC Quiz for Cabinet

A Professional Learning Community is an ongoing, never ending process in which educators work collaboratively

• in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.

• in teams to plan lessons together so they are prepared to teach the next day.

• in their PLC Team to look at data, plan lessons and make photocopies.

• during their PLC Time to talk about how to achieve better results for the students they serve.

Districts that deeply implement the Professional Learning Communities process

• A. experience greater gains in student learning and achievement.

• B. experience ongoing, job-embedded learning for its educators.

• C. add it to one of many District initiatives that teachers are expected to implement.

• D. All of the above are correct.

• E. A and B are correct.

A common misconception with PLCs is

• it is on ongoing, never-ending process.

• it is the only approach a District uses to continuously improve learning.

• it is a time of the day or a meeting (i.e., My PLC time is at 2:30 today.)

• it is the larger organization (District and school).

The Big Ideas that drive the work of PLCs are

• A Focus on Teaching, A Results Orientation, and A Collaborative Culture and Individual Responsibility

• A Focus on Learning, A Results Orientation, and A Collaborative Culture and Individual Responsibility

• A Focus on Learning, A Results Orientation, and A Collaborative Culture and Collective Responsibility

• A Focus on Teaching, A Results Orientation, and A Collaborative Culture and Collective Responsibility

Professional Learning Communities are

• another initiative.

• a meeting amongst educators.

• a meeting amongst educators to collaborate.

• All of the above.

• None of the above.

How many questions drive the work of a Professional Learning Community?

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

• None

Essential standards is the answer to which question that drives the work of a PLC?

• How will we respond when learning has already occurred?

• What do we want ALL students to learn?

• How will we respond when learning has not occurred?

• How will we know they learned it?

Who published 90-90-90 research and the book, Equity and Excellence, and is also presenting our keynote on Aug. 7?

• Dr. Miguel Cardona

• Dr. Gauna

• Tony Thurmond

• Doug Reeves

PLCs engage in

• some cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.

• recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve similar results for the students they serve.

• recurring cycles of individual inquiry to achieve better results for the students they serve.

• recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.

PLCs operate on the assumption that

• the key to improved learning for ALL students is motivating them to want to learn.

• the key to improved learning for ALL students is the continuous job-embedded learning for educators.

• the key to improved learning for ALL students is making sure the teacher is deemed "Highly Qualified".

• the key to improved learning for ALL students is the education level of their parents.