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Podcast: Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud
Episode: The Purpose When Teachers Meet?
Description: Understanding the desired outcome of a meeting is key to teachers knowing the participatory behaviors that are most productive. Everything being called a PLC interferes with participants being able to focus on the educator learning in true PLCs that leads to increased student success. In professional learning communities, purposeful teacher learning around how to increase student achievement is the focus. Teachers are collaboratively asking, "What do the students need us to learn?"
Listen to the podcast on PLCs with Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey here.Â
Find Chris Jensen's guest blog, "Teaming and Workflow" here. Â
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