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=Learning Teams=

"Every professional in the building must engage with colleagues in the ongoing exploration of three critical questions that drive the work of those within a professional learning community: 1) What is it we want all students to learn? 2) How will we know when each student has learned it? 3) How will we respond when a student does not learn? - Paraphrased from //Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn,// by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, & Gayle Karhanek, 2004

"The most powerful forms of staff development occur in ongoing teams that meet on a regular basis . . . for the purpose of learning, joint lesson planning and problem solving." - //NSDC's Standards for Staff Development,// 2001

"Professional Learning Team meetings . . . have one primary purpose: improved teaching and learning in an area of identified student need. In Professional Learning Teams, teacher maintain an undeviating focus on studying, learning, and becoming better teachers." - Team to Teach, by Anne Jolly, 2008

**Timeline**: // "What sets smart teams apart from others is . . . that they discuss and agree on norms and protocols for important aspects of working collectively. Norms are those consistent and enduring behaviors that group members have explicitly or implicitly agreed to. They support a set of shared beliefs, values, and expectations for team behavior and determine 'how we do things around here,' " - // Carol Beatty and Brenda Scott, // Building Smart Teams: A Roadmap to High Performance, // 2004
 * Burleson Grade Level Learning Team Parameters**:
 * Devote two common planning times a month to meet together as a learning team.
 * Team meetings will be at least one hour.
 * Follow the timeline listed below: defining team expectations, setting a focus area, developing a team plan, and holding meetings.
 * Use the Burleson Wiki to document findings, share insights, record team thinking, and share research-based strategies
 * Post Team Documentation to the Wiki within three days of each Learning Team Meeting
 * August - Define Team Expectations

//"Staff development that improves the learning of all students uses disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement." - NSDC's Standards for Staff Development, // 2001
 * August - Determine Learning Team Area of Focus and Goals based on Review of Student Data

//"A good plan is like a roadmap. It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there." - // H. Stanley Judd, author and producer
 * August - End of Year - Develop a plan for Learning and Action


 * August - May - Learning Team Meetings

**Learning Team Areas of Focus**: **Learning Team Resource Links**:
 * Instructional strategies for improving student achievement in math
 * Instructional strategies for improving student achievement in writing
 * Instructional strategies for improving student achievement in at-risk students
 * Math Cumulative Common Assessments
 * Book Study - Approved by principal
 * Dyslexia Strategies
 * ARMT practice
 * Behavioral Issues
 * Using data to drive instruction
 * Other topics with approval from the principal


 * All Things PLC


 * SEDL Advancing Research, Improving Education


 * Education Northwest


 * SERVE Center


 * Supervision and Curriculum Development


 * Teacher Leaders Network


 * Education World


 * ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center


 * Education Podcasts