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=Welcome to the PLC Template Wikispace!=

This wikispace was developed as a presentation tool in order to show you how a wikispace can be used as a practical tool to facilitate the work of Professional Learning Communities. The purpose of this presentation is to show you how PLC work can be organized and recorded for ongoing use and improvement. This template is a good starting point illustrating how to organize basic PLC tasks into a web page that is easy for everyone on your team to use. After answering the basic PLC questions on this template, your team will continue to work to improve student performance--and that continued work will be reflected by your improving educational programs and your growing wikispace. With time, you will end up with a wikispace that catalogues the amazing accomplishments of your team.


 * Some examples of wikispaces belonging to PLCs at El Cajon Valley High School:
 * English Language Development
 * 10th Grade English Team
 * AVID

As you can tell from the samples above, as PLCs develop and tackle a greater variety of instructional issues, the team's wikispace will grow as it records the work done by the PLC. This way, instead of innovations falling by the wayside with each new instructional focus, your team will more easily be able to maintain prior PLC work while adding new improvements. This makes for a more powerful, effective PLC.

As your PLC completes this fundamental work, you will want to continue on to other PLC work. This site heavily draws from (in some instances simply copying and pasting or hyperlinking) the wikispace El Cajon Valley High School teachers developed to show how teachers can use wikispaces with their PLCs. That wikispace is a good reference for using wikispaces to complete PLC work. In other words, just like the development of your own wikispaces, I borrowed and copied and linked to other people's work. Why re-invent the wheel, right? Because of my reliance on all the work that was done before, I created this site with about 3 hours of work (including planning for what I wanted to say during the presentation).