Lovett Notes
A Newsletter for Lovett Staff
Coming up this week!
Tuesday January 24
10:45-2:00 pm 1st Grade Field Trip to Houston Children’s Museum
Lovett Spirit Night at Guglliani’s
3:30 pm All City Rehearsal; Band Room
Wednesday January 25
No Extended Day
12:50 pm Early Dismissal
- Sheltered Instruction Course Completion
- Turn into completion certificate by the end of the day
Progress Reports Go Home
Thursday January 26
9:00 am Magnet Tour
3:30 pm New Teacher Meeting; Data Room
3:30 pm All City Rehearsal; Band Room
Friday January 27
6:30 pm Mother Son Dance; MPR
Saturday January 28
All City Concert
Lovett Best Practice: Professional Learing Communities
A PLC is a collective group of people that collaborate to answer critical questions focused on student learning:
1. What do we want our students to learn? What should each student know and be able to do as a result of a lesson, unit, grade level and/or course?
2. How will we know that they have learned?
3. What will we do if they don't learn? What systematic process is in place to provide additional time and support for students who are experiencing difficulty?
4. What will we do if they already know it? How do we work with high performing students to increase their understanding at an even higher level?
A PLC agrees to:
1. Ensure that ALL students have access to the same knowledge, skills, and dispositions regardless of the teacher they are assigned to
2. Adhering to time lines for administering common assessments
3. Share student performance data and best practices
A PLC is not:
1. lockstep pacing: everyday in each classroom does not have to look the same
2. uniform instruction-Teachers should remain free on a day to day basis to make instructional decisions. The PLC benefits from a diversity in thinking, techniques and resources. This does not mean that teacher stray away from school improvement practices and/or school wide implementations, but in addition you seek out best practices that work for your students.
3. just writing lesson plans together. A PLC goes far beyond lesson planning. Each teacher must take the lesson plan and make it their own, inserting or enhancing the plan to work for their students.