AQIFGA Conference 2013 Professional Learning Communities: The Place Cartier Experience Presenters: Claudine Turnbull — Assistant Director Gail Gagnon — Educational Consultant Matthew Kennedy — Teacher Other members of Place Cartier’s PLC Committee: Michael Grumberg, Jonathan Hullar, & Janice Newton
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AQIFGA Conference 2013
Professional Learning Communities: The Place Cartier Experience
Presenters:
Claudine Turnbull — Assistant Director
Gail Gagnon — Educational Consultant
Matthew Kennedy — Teacher
Other members of Place Cartier’s PLC Committee:
Michael Grumberg, Jonathan Hullar, & Janice Newton
Focus Questions
Q1: Why do schools exist?
Q2: What makes a great teacher?
Q3: What does an effective meeting look like?
Q. 1: Why do schools exist?
Q. 2: What makes a great teacher?
Q. 3: What does an effective meeting look like?
Workshop Objectives
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) defined
Overview of the Place Cartier experience
Guidelines for implementation
PLC Defined
An ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.
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