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Introduction to Professional Learning Communities

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 introduces the Missouri Story and creates the foundation for the project.

The Missouri Story – Introduction to Professional Learning Communities

• Welcome
  • About Us
  • Credits
  • One School's Story
• Activities
  • Myths and Legends of PLCs
  • Myths and Legends of PLCs 2
  • PLCs are and are not activity
  • Tracking and assessing cultural shifts
  • PLC Readiness Survey
  • PLC Survey Exercise
• Online Classes
• Training & Support
• Rubric
  • PLC Rubric
  • Summary Response Sheet
  • Questions for Rubric Reflection and discussion
• Resources
  • The Seven Stages of Professional Learning Teams
  • Alternative Prof. Dev
  • Cultural Shifts in a PLC
  • MCREL Rubric
  • Critical Friends Groups purpose and work
  • NLG PLCs
  • Prof learning
  • PLC research and model
  • Schmoker
  • The school as a PLC
  • Quotes for closing
• Washington PLCs