Sauk Prairie PLC’s

Draft Proposal
for
2009-2010
SP PLC Committee Members
 PLC Structure
• PLC: Professional Learning Community
 Early release days: 2-3:30 pm
Two ½-Day in-services
 Professional Development Opportunities

during the summer

 PLC In The Prairie
• Teachers will meet by departments or teams
(some time will be designated to meet with 7-12
departments)
• Focus will be developed by teachers. Possible
areas could be:
 PDP development & work
 Tier I, II, & III student plans
 curriculum development
 collaboration with Spec Ed/ELL teachers, Title I
 book studies
 RTI
 Everybody’s Talkin’….
…But teachers need to communicate!
PLC’s offer teachers a chance to:

 communicate within departments!

 communicate across grades & district
 communicate with administration
 communicate with other departments
 Time Keeps on Tickin’…
Hours of Instruction
3 full in-service days
2008-09 K-2 Contact hours DPI Required Difference
Spruce/Merrimac 1089 1050 39+
Black Hawk 1075 1050 25+

Two ½-day in-services

2009-10 Contact DPI Difference PLC Hours Hours Over
Hours Required Required

Spruce/Merr 1072 1050 22+ 11.25 10.75

imac
Black Hawk 1072 1050 22+ 11.25 10.75
 Time Keeps on Tickin’…
3 full in-service days

2008-09 3-5 Contact hours DPI Required Difference

G.A./Tower Rock 1075 1050 25 +

Merrimac 1089 1050 39 +

Two ½-day in-services

2009-10 Contact DPI Required Differe PLC Hours Hours Over
Hours nce Required

G.A./Tower 1115 1050 65+ 11.25 53.75

Rock
Merrimac 1115 1050 65+ 11.25 53.75
 You Better Stop!
PLC’s are NOT for:
Grading papers
Staff Meetings
IEP’s
CARE Team Meetings
Making Copies
Writing Report Cards
Slackers!
 PLC time will be created by
ending instructional time one
hour early nine different times a
year. In-services designed by the
district will occur two half days
(afternoons) during the year.
Such a schedule could be:
 PLC Draft Calendar
• September –1 PLC – Sept. 16
• October – 1 PLC - Oct. 14
• Oct. 22: ½ day inservice
• November – 1 PLC – Nov. 4
• December – 1 PLC – Dec. 9
• January – 1 PLC Jan. 27
• Jan. 22 work day (part of calendar now, 1 of the 190 teacher
contracted days)
• February – 1 PLC – Feb. 10
• March – 1 PLC – March 10 PLC
• March 23: ½ day inservice
• April – 1 PLC – April 14
• May – 1 PLC – May 19
 PLC Days

Student dismissal:
Elementary – 1:37
Secondary – 1:55
Teacher PLC: 2-3:30 on chosen Wednesday of month

Half day inservice days:

Student dismissal:
Elementary – 11:10
Secondary – 11:25
 SP’s PLC’s: A Work in
Progress
• PLC Committee: teachers and administrators
study process, propose plans, receive feedback
• Presentation by teachers from districts that
have implemented PLCs (Badger)
• Visits to districts who have implemented PLCs:
(Badger High School, Lake Geneva, WI; Adlai
Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, IL )
– Representatives from all departments and grade
levels should try to attend these visits
 SP’s PLC’s: A Work in
•
Progress (cont.)
Resources available to teachers to learn more about
PLCs:
Professional Learning Communities at Work
by Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker
Whatever it Takes: How Professional Learning
Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn
by Richard and Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker,
and Gayle Karhanek
• PLC Book studies/ discussions to be offered (Spring
or Summer: Could be used for Profess.
Development hours)
 SP’s PLC’s: A Work in
Progress (cont.)
• Information to community: newsletters, letters to
student’s parents, information concerning
extended child-care options available
• “Options Available” FAQs to be developed &
Distributed to teachers
• Structure of Professional Development specifics to
be developed (summer)…i.e. communication,
agenda items, hosts, etc…
 A Few More Things…
• Kids’ Club is planning to extend their hours to
help accommodate parents during PLC time
• Jed Eichorn is planning for recreation
activities through the Community Center
during this time, as well
• Remember: This is a one-year trial to see
how PLCs will work here at SP…The
committee will look for your feedback this
time next year to find out what you think
works, doesn’t work, etc.