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Professional Learning Community
What is a Professional
Learning Community?
There are three Big Ideas
of the Professional Learning Community approach.
Big Idea #1: Ensuring all students can learn
Big Idea #2: A culture of collaboration
Big Idea #3: Focus on Results
The staff at Susick Elementary focuses on
answering the four questions that make up a Professional Learning Community.
Question #1: What do we want our students to
learn?
Question #2: How do we know the students
learned the concepts?
Question #3: What do we do for the students
who have not learned the concepts?
Question #4: What do we do for the students
who have learned the concepts?
Below are Susick Elementary’s School
Improvement Goals for the 2010-2011 school yr:
Goal #1 Reading
Objective: All students will improve their DRA
score by a minimum of one grade level.
Strategy: Guided Reading
Activities:
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DRA2 and MLPP testing
administered to identify students’ reading level
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Students reading text
at their appropriate reading level
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Small groups of 3-5
students working with teacher on reading skills such as fluency and
comprehension
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90 minutes of
Language Arts Block everyday
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Interventions and
support from the Special Ed., Title I, and ELL staff
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Utilization of
Literacy Library
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Accelerated Reader
Program
Goal #2 Math
Objective: All Students Will Achieve at Least 80%
on the End of the Year Math Assessment
Strategy: Differentiated Instruction and
Support
Activities:
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Whole group and small
group instruction
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Utilization of math manipulatives as well as the SMART board technology
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Interventions and
support from the Special Ed., Title I, and ELL staff
Goal #3 Writing
Objective: All Students will demonstrate an
increase in Writing Proficiency in All Content Areas
Strategy: Writer’s Workshop
Activities:
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Each classroom teacher utilizes the Writer’s Workshop for 45 minutes, four days a week
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Strong emphasis placed on writing in
other content areas such as Science, Social Studies, and Math
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Interventions and support from the
Special Ed., Title I, and ELL staff
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