#atplc Archive
For over a year, educators have used the #atplc Twitter tag to share resources and ideas about PLCs, connect with others around the world, and inspire each other to never stop learning. Now is your chance to join the conversation! Visit http://www.allthingsplc.info/tools-resources/twitter-chat for more info.
Thursday April 14, 2016
9:00 PM EDT
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Good evening (afternoon in Alaska) ! Welcome to the chat, please state your name and where you're from!
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The topic for tonight's chat is cross-curricular PLCs. To start, why would we do cross curricular PLCs?
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Paula from Houston, happy to have a Thursday night finally available to participate
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A1: Because we collaborate about serving ALL of our students across content areas
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Q1 What cross-curricular PLC groupings make the most sense? Why?
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A1 Grade level PLCs are the easy way to go but you could also do music or elective PLCs
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Scott from Michigan. If kids see connections between content areas, hopefully it is more relevant to them
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and, when we all look from a different angle we can see how our strengths can support them.
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A1: I love vertical PLCs with Ts that serve special pops such as bilingual educators, special education, etc.
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Dan, business teacher from St. Louis jumping in late.
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A1: business and math make the most sense to me.
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Q2 What are the challenges of cross-curricular PLCs?
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A1 One challenge is finding data to examine and talk about
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A2: finding time to dedicate for collaboration
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Barely time for departments to collaborate, let alone for crosscurricular collaboration
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Q3 How do you include all different content areas in cross-curricular PLCs?
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A2: time for everyone to meet and having resources available to collaborate.
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Q2 follow up how do we make the collaboration happen when time isn't available?
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A2: build oppts thru Google Docs/ Forms, Twitter, Skype, etc. Get creative in how we collaborate
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Q4 How do you include character ed in cross-curricular PLCs?
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A2 Follow-up. Google Docs is great! Enter data, comment, share, collaboration groundwork can happen asynchronously
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A4 You include character ed by measuring and analyzing that data.
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A4: Haven't even gotten close to that, not in a formal sense :(
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A4: embed how we build character ed into all instructional opportunities. It's not either/ or, it's AND...
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Q5 What types of data do you focus on in cross-curricular PLCs?
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A5 you still focus on same data, but talk about how each content area can impact that data.
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YES! How do we collectively work together to help Ss grow
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interesting. That was where we started with cross curricular PLCs.
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We started with essential standards in content areas. Honestly, character items wouldn't have occurred to us
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Q6 What resources help you get better at doing cross-curricular PLCs?
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