August 26, 2019

Fisher & Frey PLC+

59 minutes

Episode 041: PLC Plus with Nancy Frey & Doug Fisher

Join us for this discussion with the potent pair Doug Fisher & Nancy Frey! We learn about their new book, PLC+ and the five questions that get to the heart of what collaboration time should look like in schools. Stay tuned until the end for a special promo code for our listeners for the PLC+ Institutes the authors will be hosting in Colorado in October!

Connect with Fisher & Frey

Website: www.fisherandfrey.com/ | Twitter: @DFisherSDSU; @NancyFrey | Newest Book: PLC Plus, Corwin Press

Connect with Vrain Waves

Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

Out of Our Heads & Into the Classroom: (01:30)

American Express: Simple Guide to Lean Meetings

Robyn Jackson on weekly team meetings

Have an agenda / protocol

Techless meetings

Pre-mortem from Daniel Pink

Collaborative notes & DRIs

Toby - Chrome Extension

Introduction to Fisher & Frey & PLC Plus (08:12)

Their School: Health Sciences High & Middle College in San Diego

Questions: Where are we now? & the importance of pre-assessments

Side note: common questions for PLC work come from DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, 2010 as a PLC foundation: Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work; we acknowledge this foundational work when discussing PLCs :

What do we want students to learn? (essential standards)

How will we know if they have learned? (team-developed common assessments)

What will we do if they don’t learn? (systematic interventions)

What will we do if they already know it? (extended learning)

Collective Efficacy

Graham Nuthall, Hidden Lives of Learners

Students already know between 40-50 percent of what the teacher is teaching (Nuthall, 2007)

Equity: Removal of Barriers vs. intervention as responses to student data

Activator: Someone to guide the group

What are PLCs getting wrong? (13:21)

Emphasis on the structural conditions can overwhelm the focus and mission of the group

PLC must continually reinvest in itself

Lack of attention to instruction - “How do we move learning forward?”

Literacy example (16:49)

Curriculum / Instruction / Assessment

Recent research that ~20% of in-class tasks are on grade level TNTP’s The Opportunity Myth - and an article from EdWeek

PLC+ Protocol - Assignment analysis (from The Education Trust) (19:34)

Equity in Motion work from The Education Trust

Trust and the importance of Relational Conditions (21:18)

Activator helps keep the conversation moving

Protocols provide consistency

PLC+ / PD (22:57)

Roughly a 1 to 3 ratio - Full staff Professional learning to PLC+ Time

Credibility & Efficacy (24:33)

Teacher Credibility: Trust, Competence, Dynamism, Immediacy

Self-Efficacy and Collective Efficacy (27:17)

Albert Bandura’s research on self-efficacy -

From Leading Impact Teams, by Bloomberg & Pitchford (& based on Bandura’s research, as well as Goddard, Hoy, & Hoy): Efficacy = Mastery Moments, Vicarious Experience, Feedback, and Trust

“Where are we going?” and “Where are we now?” (31:08)

5 Questions in PLC+: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit?

Bringing data to the PLC+ (33:22)

Student feedback

Equity / Cognitive Bias / The Decisions we choose to make: (35:52)

Quote from PLC+: “Underlying every decision about what we choose to gather data on is an unspoken decision about what we won’t look at.”

Data should be aligned to team’s common challenge; then did we impact learning or not?

Invite students to PLC+ times for feedback

Protocols for learning walks

Microteaching protocols

What did we learn today? Every single day we should be formatively assessing

Scheduling logistics (44:56)

Two PLC+s - Grade level & Content level

Vertical & Horizontal conversations are necessary

Grading at their school (48:19)

Competency-Based / Mastery of Standards

Formative homework & classwork

All Learning is Social Emotional (50:41)

Social Emotional Academic Learning

Removing institutional barriers vs. Intervention (54:27)

Support each learner individually - help them find a way to mastery

Special offer for Vrain Waves Listeners!! (58:50)

Promo Code: VRAINWAVES

Go to corwin.com/PLCColorado to register; Oct 3 & 4 in Denver at the Curtis Hotel

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August 26, 2019

Fisher & Frey PLC+

59 minutes

Episode 041: PLC Plus with Nancy Frey & Doug Fisher

Connect with Fisher & Frey

Website: www.fisherandfrey.com/ | Twitter: @DFisherSDSU; @NancyFrey | Newest Book: PLC Plus, Corwin Press

Connect with Vrain Waves

Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

Out of Our Heads & Into the Classroom: (01:30)

American Express: Simple Guide to Lean Meetings

Robyn Jackson on weekly team meetings

Have an agenda / protocol

Techless meetings

Pre-mortem from Daniel Pink

Collaborative notes & DRIs

Toby - Chrome Extension

Introduction to Fisher & Frey & PLC Plus (08:12)

Their School: Health Sciences High & Middle College in San Diego

Questions: Where are we now? & the importance of pre-assessments

What do we want students to learn? (essential standards)

How will we know if they have learned? (team-developed common assessments)

What will we do if they don’t learn? (systematic interventions)

What will we do if they already know it? (extended learning)

Collective Efficacy

Graham Nuthall, Hidden Lives of Learners

Students already know between 40-50 percent of what the teacher is teaching (Nuthall, 2007)

Equity: Removal of Barriers vs. intervention as responses to student data

Activator: Someone to guide the group

What are PLCs getting wrong? (13:21)

Emphasis on the structural conditions can overwhelm the focus and mission of the group

PLC must continually reinvest in itself

Lack of attention to instruction - “How do we move learning forward?”

Literacy example (16:49)

Curriculum / Instruction / Assessment

Recent research that ~20% of in-class tasks are on grade level TNTP’s The Opportunity Myth - and an article from EdWeek

PLC+ Protocol - Assignment analysis (from The Education Trust) (19:34)

Equity in Motion work from The Education Trust

Trust and the importance of Relational Conditions (21:18)

Activator helps keep the conversation moving

Protocols provide consistency

PLC+ / PD (22:57)

Roughly a 1 to 3 ratio - Full staff Professional learning to PLC+ Time

Credibility & Efficacy (24:33)

Teacher Credibility: Trust, Competence, Dynamism, Immediacy

Self-Efficacy and Collective Efficacy (27:17)

Albert Bandura’s research on self-efficacy -

From Leading Impact Teams, by Bloomberg & Pitchford (& based on Bandura’s research, as well as Goddard, Hoy, & Hoy): Efficacy = Mastery Moments, Vicarious Experience, Feedback, and Trust

“Where are we going?” and “Where are we now?” (31:08)

5 Questions in PLC+: Where are we going? Where are we now? How do we move learning forward? What did we learn today? Who benefited and who did not benefit?

Bringing data to the PLC+ (33:22)

Student feedback

Equity / Cognitive Bias / The Decisions we choose to make: (35:52)

Quote from PLC+: “Underlying every decision about what we choose to gather data on is an unspoken decision about what we won’t look at.”

Data should be aligned to team’s common challenge; then did we impact learning or not?

Invite students to PLC+ times for feedback

Protocols for learning walks

Microteaching protocols

What did we learn today? Every single day we should be formatively assessing

Scheduling logistics (44:56)

Two PLC+s - Grade level & Content level

Vertical & Horizontal conversations are necessary

Grading at their school (48:19)

Competency-Based / Mastery of Standards

Formative homework & classwork

All Learning is Social Emotional (50:41)

Social Emotional Academic Learning

Removing institutional barriers vs. Intervention (54:27)

Support each learner individually - help them find a way to mastery

Special offer for Vrain Waves Listeners!! (58:50)

Promo Code: VRAINWAVES

Go to corwin.com/PLCColorado to register; Oct 3 & 4 in Denver at the Curtis Hotel

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