Yearlong Sequence
The 18 Meetings
One authentic PLC learning cycle across 18 meetings — 45 minutes, every other Wednesday. Deliberately paced, with buffer meetings built in for a real cultural shift.
Every meeting follows the same 45-minute structure
A predictable rhythm lowers the cost of the cultural shift — teams spend their energy on the work, not on figuring out how the meeting runs.
0–5 min
Reconnect & refocus
What did we agree to do last time? Did we complete it?
5–10 min
PLC question of the day
Which of the four critical questions is driving today?
10–35 min
Team work time
Create, revise, analyze, or decide something concrete.
35–43 min
Product check
What did we complete? What is still unfinished?
43–45 min
Commitments
Who does what, by when, and what to bring next time.
Phase 1 · Foundations & Culture
Build shared purpose, norms, and an honest picture of where the team is.
Meeting 1: Why PLC Right? Why Now?
Culture shift and shared purpose.
View agendaMeeting 2: Team Norms and Roles
Creating the conditions for productive collaboration.
View agendaMeeting 3: Team Self-Assessment
Naming current reality.
View agendaMeeting 4: Reset and Readiness Check
Buffer meeting for culture, clarity, and questions.
View agendaPhase 2 · What Do We Want Students to Learn?
Identify one essential standard, deconstruct it, and define proficiency.
Meeting 5: Identifying Essential Standards
PLC Question 1: What do we want students to learn?
View agendaMeeting 6: Deconstructing the Essential Standard
Clarifying what students must know and be able to do.
View agendaMeeting 7: Defining Proficiency
Agreeing on what "learned it" means.
View agendaMeeting 8: Buffer and Calibration
Reinforcement before assessment design.
View agendaPhase 3 · How Will We Know They Learned It?
Design and quality-check a common formative assessment, then teach with the end in mind.
Meeting 9: Designing the Common Formative Assessment
PLC Question 2: How will we know if students learned it?
View agendaMeeting 10: CFA Quality Check
Making sure the assessment is aligned, clear, and useful.
View agendaMeeting 11: Instructional Planning Before the CFA
Planning instruction with the end in mind.
View agendaMeeting 12: Mid-Cycle Check and Troubleshooting
Buffer meeting during instruction.
View agendaPhase 4 · Response, Reflection & Growth
The turning point — analyze evidence, respond with intervention and extension, reassess, and reflect.
Meeting 13: CFA Data Review
Analyzing evidence of student learning.
View agendaMeeting 14: Teacher Learning From the Data
Using results to improve adult practice.
View agendaMeeting 15: Intervention and Extension Planning
PLC Questions 3 and 4.
View agendaMeeting 16: Intervention/Extension Check
Monitoring the response.
View agendaMeeting 17: Reassessment and Results
Determining whether the response worked.
View agendaMeeting 18: Full Cycle Reflection and Next Steps
Celebrating completion and preparing for the next cycle.
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