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Getting Started

The National Education Association has followed Butcher-Green Elementary School in Grandview Missouri through their journey of developing, implementing, and sustaining a professional learning community in their school. The streaming video segments available on this website highlight the progress that the Butcher-Green Elementary staff members make as they address how to form teams, develop team norms, establish protocols, review student work, and develop collaborative processes. The entire video showcases how teams working together in effective professional learning communities close the achievement gap and improve student learning.

This segment of the video leads the viewers through how Butcher-Green Elementary School got started with Professional learning communities.

The Missouri Story – Getting Started

• Necessary Conditions
  • One School's Story
• Challenge Cycle
  • Challenge
  • Initial Thoughts
  • Interactions
  • Revised Thoughts
  • Group Work
  • Moving Forward
• Activities
  • Venn Diagram Activity
  • Time Bandit Activity
  • Time to Meet Activity
  • Schmoker Quote Activity
  • Developing Team Norms Activity
  • Team Norms Activity
  • Research Activity
• Finding Time
  • Blocking Time
  • Innovative Grouping
  • Early Release/Late Start
  • Higher Ed Opportunities
  • Assemblies
  • Theme and Team
  • Field Experiences
  • Substitutes
  • Stipends
  • 2 for 1 Day
  • Banked or Comp Time
  • Efficient Use of Meeting Times
  • Think Outside the Clock
  • Communicating the use of Time
• Removing Barriers
  • Teacher Isolation
  • Costs
  • Use of Space
• Working as a Team
  • Team Tenants
  • Team Procedures and Norms
  • Developing Norms Worksheet
  • Creating Team Norms
  • Team Norms Quick Check
  • Team Norms Example
  • Working Toward Consensus
  • Revisiting Team Norms
• rubric
  • Rubric
  • Essential Questions
  • Checklist
• Resources
  • PLC Necessary Conditions (PPT)
  • Resources
  • Time Resources