Building Effective Professional Learning Teams

Gladys Marie Washington

Wake Principal Leadership Program-Spring 2020

WHO & WHY LOGIC MODEL TEACHER FEEDBACK

West Millbrook Magnet Middle is an International
Baccalaureate MYP candidate school. With its diverse
population, this school serves approximately 930
students from North and Southeast Raleigh.
At the end of the 2017-2018 school year, West
Millbrook was classified as a low performing school.
In the following year, the overall growth and
proficiency of students increased; yet the percentage
of proficient students was still below the district and
state’s average. Therefore; the West Millbrook
administrative team chose to implement a school-wide
PLT schedule and structured framework for the 2019-
2020 school year. Both are designed to give all
teachers consistent, uninterrupted work time to RECOMMENDATIONS
collaborate and improve student learning outcomes.
RESULTS ❑ Continue having weekly PLT meetings on the same
day during common planning time.

❑ Continue to focus on disaggregating student

WHAT assessment data and having meaningful
discussions about this data..
GOAL: To improve student achievement at West
Millbrook Magnet Middle School by creating and ❑ Provide ongoing professional development for math
sustaining effective structures for all professional teachers in grades 6, 7, and 8 to enhance math
learning teams skills and dig deeper into standards.

❑ Administration needs to continue to support all PLTs.

HOW
❑ All PLTs will meet in the IB PD lab every Wednesday
during their common planning time.
❑ The instructional facilitator and an administrator will
provide support to PLTs during this meeting time.
❑ All PLTs will participate in WCPSS’s Data Literacy
course.
❑ All PLTs will analyze student assessment results and
discuss ways to improve instruction specifically in ELA
and math.
REFLECTION
My conclusion is that West Millbrook’s school-wide PLT
schedule and specific framework for PLT work is a
success. All PLTs have been meeting every Wednesday in
the IB lab with administrative support until the recent
closing of school due to COVID 19. Based on teacher
feedback, 80% of teachers said they like having their PLT
meeting on the same day and time every week, so since
school has closed, all PLTs have continued to meet
➢ 6th and 7th grade students made growth in ELA from
virtually once a week during a common time. Although I
Q1 to Q2.
was not able to obtain 3rd quarter data, I hypothesis that
➢ All math courses saw a decline in 2nd quarter report
students in all grade levels will continue to decline in math
card grades as compared to 1st quarter.
with less face-to-face teacher instruction.
➢ The grade level average for Math 6, Math 7, & Math
8 was below 68% in Quarter 2.