Tom Many - PLC Professional Development

Professional Learning Communities -
PLCs

I really didn't know much about PLCs and the parts I did know were pretty fuzzy - at least that's how I felt Monday morning. But by the end of the day my understanding had increased. Tom Many's experience as superintendent of a large Illinois school moving along the path of PLCs was a great help in that understanding.  I appreciated his mix of stories and facts - it created a picture of what the possibilities of this are.

I think Mid-Prairie also made an impression on Tom.  We had asked if it was ok to have a Twitter feed on the side screen during the morning and if the staff could have digital copies of his presentations.  This was the first a school had made either of these requests, and he agreed.
At the close of the morning's session we posed a twitter challenge to the entire staff - tweet out remaining questions about PLCs.

This turned out to be a great way to close a large group session and transition into our smaller planning group in the afternoon.  Rather than work from the prepared slide deck of powerpoint slides, Tom worked from the tweeted questions.  It was a practical and focused conversation with the Instructional Leadership Team.  And this was Tom's tweet at the end of the day!

Have to say it was a great day all the way around!!