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Episode 041: PLC Plus with Nancy Frey & Doug Fisher
Join us for this discussion with the potent pair Doug Fisher & Nancy Frey! We learn about their new book, PLC+ and the five questions that get to the heart of what collaboration time should look like in schools. Stay tuned until the end for a special promo code for our listeners for the PLC+ Institutes the authors will be hosting in Colorado in October!

Connect with Fisher & Frey
Website: www.fisherandfrey.com/ | Twitter: @DFisherSDSU; @NancyFrey | Newest Book: PLC Plus, Corwin Press

Connect with Vrain Waves
Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

  • Out of Our Heads & Into the Classroom: (01:30)
  • Introduction to Fisher & Frey & PLC Plus (08:12)
    • Their School: Health Sciences High & Middle College in San Diego
    • Questions: Where are we now? & the importance of pre-assessments
      • Side note: common questions for PLC work come from DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, 2010 as a PLC foundation: Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work; we acknowledge this foundational work when discussing PLCs :
        •  What do we want students to learn? (essential standards) 
        •  How will we know if they have learned? (team-developed common assessments) 
        •  What will we do if they don’t learn? (systematic interventions) 
        •  What will we do if they already know it? (extended learning) 
    • Collective Efficacy
    • Graham Nuthall, Hidden Lives of Learners
      • Students already know between 40-50 percent of what the teacher is teaching (Nuthall, 2007)
    • Equity: Removal of Barriers vs. intervention as responses to student data
    • Activator: Someone to guide the group
  • What are PLCs getting wrong? (13:21)
    • Emphasis on the structural conditions can overwhelm the focus and mission of the group
    • PLC must continually reinvest in itself
    • Lack of attention to instruction - “How do we move learning forward?”
      • Literacy example (16:49)
    • Curriculum / Instruction / Assessment
    • Recent research that ~20% of in-class tasks are on grade level TNTP’s The Opportunity Myth - and an article from EdWeek
    • PLC+ Protocol - Assignment analysis (from The Education Trust) (19:34)
  • Trust and the importance of Relational Conditions (21:18)
    • Activator helps keep the conversation moving
    • Protocols provide consistency
  • PLC+ / PD (22:57)
    • Roughly a 1 to 3 ratio - Full staff Professional learning to PLC+ Time
  • Credibility & Efficacy (24:33)
    • Teacher Credibility: Trust, Competence, Dynamism, Immediacy
  • Self-Efficacy and Collective Efficacy (27:17)
    • Albert Bandura’s research on self-efficacy -
      • From Leading Impact Teams, by Bloomberg & Pitchford (& based on Bandura’s research, as well as Goddard, Hoy, & Hoy): Efficacy = Mastery Moments, Vicarious Experience, Feedback, and Trust
  • “Where are we going?” and “Where are we now?” (31:08)
    • 5 Questions in PLC+: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit?
  • Bringing data to the PLC+ (33:22)
    • Student feedback
  • Equity / Cognitive Bias / The Decisions we choose to make: (35:52)
    • Quote from PLC+: “Underlying every decision about what we choose to gather data on is an unspoken decision about what we won’t look at.”
    • Data should be aligned to team’s common challenge; then did we impact learning or not?
      • Invite students to PLC+ times for feedback
  • Protocols for learning walks
    • Microteaching protocols
  • What did we learn today? Every single day we should be formatively assessing
  • Scheduling logistics (44:56)
    • Two PLC+s - Grade level & Content level
    • Vertical & Horizontal conversations are necessary
  • Grading at their school (48:19)
    • Competency-Based / Mastery of Standards
    • Formative homework & classwork
  • All Learning is Social Emotional (50:41)
    • Social Emotional Academic Learning
  • Removing institutional barriers vs. Intervention (54:27)
    • Support each learner individually - help them find a way to mastery
  • Special offer for Vrain Waves Listeners!! (58:50)
  continue reading

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Episode 041: PLC Plus with Nancy Frey & Doug Fisher
Join us for this discussion with the potent pair Doug Fisher & Nancy Frey! We learn about their new book, PLC+ and the five questions that get to the heart of what collaboration time should look like in schools. Stay tuned until the end for a special promo code for our listeners for the PLC+ Institutes the authors will be hosting in Colorado in October!

Connect with Fisher & Frey
Website: www.fisherandfrey.com/ | Twitter: @DFisherSDSU; @NancyFrey | Newest Book: PLC Plus, Corwin Press

Connect with Vrain Waves
Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

  • Out of Our Heads & Into the Classroom: (01:30)
  • Introduction to Fisher & Frey & PLC Plus (08:12)
    • Their School: Health Sciences High & Middle College in San Diego
    • Questions: Where are we now? & the importance of pre-assessments
      • Side note: common questions for PLC work come from DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, 2010 as a PLC foundation: Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work; we acknowledge this foundational work when discussing PLCs :
        •  What do we want students to learn? (essential standards) 
        •  How will we know if they have learned? (team-developed common assessments) 
        •  What will we do if they don’t learn? (systematic interventions) 
        •  What will we do if they already know it? (extended learning) 
    • Collective Efficacy
    • Graham Nuthall, Hidden Lives of Learners
      • Students already know between 40-50 percent of what the teacher is teaching (Nuthall, 2007)
    • Equity: Removal of Barriers vs. intervention as responses to student data
    • Activator: Someone to guide the group
  • What are PLCs getting wrong? (13:21)
    • Emphasis on the structural conditions can overwhelm the focus and mission of the group
    • PLC must continually reinvest in itself
    • Lack of attention to instruction - “How do we move learning forward?”
      • Literacy example (16:49)
    • Curriculum / Instruction / Assessment
    • Recent research that ~20% of in-class tasks are on grade level TNTP’s The Opportunity Myth - and an article from EdWeek
    • PLC+ Protocol - Assignment analysis (from The Education Trust) (19:34)
  • Trust and the importance of Relational Conditions (21:18)
    • Activator helps keep the conversation moving
    • Protocols provide consistency
  • PLC+ / PD (22:57)
    • Roughly a 1 to 3 ratio - Full staff Professional learning to PLC+ Time
  • Credibility & Efficacy (24:33)
    • Teacher Credibility: Trust, Competence, Dynamism, Immediacy
  • Self-Efficacy and Collective Efficacy (27:17)
    • Albert Bandura’s research on self-efficacy -
      • From Leading Impact Teams, by Bloomberg & Pitchford (& based on Bandura’s research, as well as Goddard, Hoy, & Hoy): Efficacy = Mastery Moments, Vicarious Experience, Feedback, and Trust
  • “Where are we going?” and “Where are we now?” (31:08)
    • 5 Questions in PLC+: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit?
  • Bringing data to the PLC+ (33:22)
    • Student feedback
  • Equity / Cognitive Bias / The Decisions we choose to make: (35:52)
    • Quote from PLC+: “Underlying every decision about what we choose to gather data on is an unspoken decision about what we won’t look at.”
    • Data should be aligned to team’s common challenge; then did we impact learning or not?
      • Invite students to PLC+ times for feedback
  • Protocols for learning walks
    • Microteaching protocols
  • What did we learn today? Every single day we should be formatively assessing
  • Scheduling logistics (44:56)
    • Two PLC+s - Grade level & Content level
    • Vertical & Horizontal conversations are necessary
  • Grading at their school (48:19)
    • Competency-Based / Mastery of Standards
    • Formative homework & classwork
  • All Learning is Social Emotional (50:41)
    • Social Emotional Academic Learning
  • Removing institutional barriers vs. Intervention (54:27)
    • Support each learner individually - help them find a way to mastery
  • Special offer for Vrain Waves Listeners!! (58:50)
  continue reading

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