Assessing your Place on the PLC Journey - Assessing Student Learning & Response to Intervention

Examine a school's use of formative assessments to guide student learning as well as how intervention occurs when students do not reach proficiency.

Current PLC level of functioning - Assessing Student Learning

Indicate the overall level of functioning for this indicator and general statements about why you believe this to be the case.This paragraph should address to the extent to which teachers assess whether students have reached proficiency on the essential standards.

Evidence that teachers have worked together to monitor student work through a system of shared assessment aligned to essential standards.It must be clear that you have gathered data by observing a PLC team other than your own.

Plan for PLC improvement - Assessing Student Learning

What steps or activities must be initiated to start this condition in your team?

Who will be responsible for initiating and sustaining these steps?Why?

What is the realistic timeline for each step or phase of activity?

What will you use to assess the effectiveness of your initiatives?

DuFour, R., DuFour, R., & Eaker, R. (2008).Revisiting professional learning communities at work: New insights for improving schools. Bloomington, Indiana: Solution Tree

Marzano, R.J., Warrick, P.B., Rains, C.L., & DuFour, R. (2018).Leading a high-reliabilityschool.Bloomington, IN:Solution Tree Press.