Guided PLCs
Leverage the collective strengths of your peers, supported by expert facilitators and more than 25 years of research. These are PLCs, reimagined.
Leverage the collective strengths of your peers, supported by expert facilitators and more than 25 years of research. These are PLCs, reimagined.
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Program Description and Methodolody
TKL’s Guided PLC program is a bold, innovative approach to traditional professional learning communities. Guided PLCs transform learning communities with purposefully designed frameworks, successful strategies, leading technologies, and collaborative processes.
The GPLC program provides teams of teachers with a catalog of targeted instructional topics, powered by an easy-to-use online learning platform, and a guided process tied to established school settings.
Our model meets teachers’ individual professional learning needs, provides structured opportunities for peer collaboration, and requires both individual and group instructional reflection. Our online platform makes it easy for teacher teams to tap into the collective knowledge of their peers in a guided, collaborative environment.
TKL’s Guided PLCs allow teachers to develop the facilitation and leadership skills required to create scalable change in your classroom and beyond.
BENEFITS
Leadership Development
Grow leadership and facilitation strengths in-house, or tap into TKL’s professional expertise with additional discussion, feedback, and coaching. Learn and share best practices with education professionals across the United States.
Collaboration
Guided PLCs are intentionally designed to build trust amongst collaborators, with scaffolded individual and group work that creates space for safe, meaningful discussions.
Support & Resources
Gain strategies for sharing your work with peers and leadership for sustained stakeholder support & additional methods for seeking resources.
Targeted Instruction
Identify your challenges and tackle them with personalized professional learning aligned to your unique standards, areas of focus, and goals.
Access Anywhere, Anytime
Enjoy convenient online access to all course content and activities, with no additional material costs when you register. Courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Perfect for Schools & Districts
With our school/district annual subscription model, teachers can complete multiple learning cycles and receive micro-credentials for their targeted areas of development.
TESTIMONIALS
"I think using the strategies we came up with during our PLC meetings definitely helped increase academic discourse within the classroom. Students needed the guided structure that sentence starters and discussion questions offered, and knowing that they would receive a grade for an assignment based around their discussion provided the initial motivation to try something that was new and uncomfortable for some students. It was somewhat difficult to measure how much the additional discourse increased student achievement, as the high-performing students took more quickly to the discourse, but I believe that with continued use over time the increased use of academic discourse will lead to greater achievement for all students. To continue our forward progress I plan to continue using the discourse strategies we've worked on in the classroom, and to try to use discourse as a regular step in the problem-solving process."
Michelle C
"Overall the lesson implementation helped us in meeting our goal. It did by helping shift our paradigm and just gaining new helpful ideas that will help our whole school increase our levels in all areas. The socialization aspect, teaches them to work as a team rather than to fight with one another. To continue our forward progress we need to make sure others that didn't take this class need to know at least how collaboration among teachers has helped us as well as our students. This will be more measurable with time I suspect. I think during a professional development for the school, some of us, not me can lead the rest of our school community in an overview of our experience."
Brent B
"The lesson helped us in meeting our goal although we need to continue implementing them as we progress throughout the school year. Student better understand our expectations for academic discourse as they work with a partner or in small groups. There is some improvement in mathematical explanations as they improve in the use of academic language and also use sentence starters."
Rhoda L
"The lessons were beneficial in us meeting the desired goal. I saw students getting excited and very intense when having their discussions. I also believe this will helps students when they need to explain their thinking and put it in writing."
Kathleen T
"these strategies have helped students get a better understanding of what we are working on and in some cases allow them to work through their thoughts with their peers and break past a point which might have otherwise stopped them."
Tammy M
"The questioning in all the areas of my lessons allows me to meet more of my students' needs to help them understand on a deeper level."
Deborah P
"I have become more self aware of my language and delivery of lessons and my students have taken more ownership in tasks."
Melissa C
"Students are now explaining their thinking more."
Kathleen T
"I feel the students have become more comfortable with using math terms and explaining how they have arrived at a answer. It has also helped students to identify and work through incorrect answers and find where they may have made their mistakes."
Kimberly M
"With these new strategies I have seen an excitement, intensity, and focus when students are have their discussions."
Lisa M