Guided PLCs Program
Transforming learning communities with purposefully designed frameworks, successful strategies, leading technologies, and collaborative processes. These are PLCs, reimagined.
Transforming learning communities with purposefully designed frameworks, successful strategies, leading technologies, and collaborative processes. These are PLCs, reimagined.
Product Description & Methodology
TKL’s Guided PLC program is a bold, innovative approach to enhancing the effectiveness of traditional professional learning communities.
The GPLC program provides teams of teachers with a growing catalog of over 50 targeted instructional topics, which most PLC teams are grappling within their schools. All of which is 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.
TARGETED INSTRUCTIONAL TOPICS
Choose from over 50 targeted online instructional topics designed to help teachers
make evolutionary changes in their classrooms and beyond.
CHALLENGES
Maintaining Focus
PLCs are often plagued by a lack of leadership, which means groups aren’t oriented around clear goals. Left without sufficient clarity and guidance, the individual needs of the PLC’s participants are often unmet, which has a negative impact on the group’s overall effectiveness.
Trust
Collaboration and growth are stifled when trust is unable to develop between participants. The result is an environment where teachers compete, rather than collaborate.
Support
A lack of support structures and resources make it difficult for educators to enact lasting change, both in their own classrooms and across the school at large.
Personalization
Without sufficient clarity and leadership, individual participants’ needs often go unmet
SOLUTIONS
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.
Testimonials
"I think using the strategies we came up with during our PLC meetings definitely helped
increase academic discourse within the classroom.
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 process helped us in meeting our goals.
It did this 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 and colloboration aspect helped us to work as a team
rather than to fight with one another."
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 an 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