December 2024 Elementary Specials PLC Newsletter

Elementary Specials PLC Newsletter

December 2024

Coaches

What Your Data Coaches Can Do For You

PLC Data

Are you unsure of ideas for your data discussion? Press here!

Shout-outs

Monthly PLC Recognitions

1st PLC

PLC Topic: Learner & Course Data ReflectionObjective: Analyze and reflect course data to update future action steps.

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Resources

Shout Outs

Thank you to all CCA Staff. We want to give a few special shout-outs to staff for going above and beyond to support PLCs!

Instructional Administrators

Educators

Kinder ELA PLCs

Steph Michael

Bo Jackson

Math 1 PLC 1

Kayla Smith

ELA 5 PLC 5

Elementary School Data Coach Central

Press the links below to review our Elementary School Data Coach Team and learn how the Data Coaches can support you and your learners.

Questions I Can Ask a Data Coach

Elementary School Data Coaches

Data Coaches can help with:

• Bubble Learner Data
• Assessment Data
• Overdues Data

• Edio Analytics
• Data Discussions
• Data for Supervisions

• Data Analysis
• All things data
• Understanding PLCs

PLC Data

As we look ahead to upcoming PLCs, you'll be able to consider other areas of data that you and your PLC would like to review. Hover over the ideas below to see options that you may like to discuss, research and review.

Data Idea 4

Data Idea 1

Data Idea 2

Data Idea 3

Data Idea 7

Data Idea 6

Data Idea 5

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The Data Workout

You need data to personalize learning

Data Driven, not Data Drowning

1st PLC of December

Analyze and reflect course data to update future action steps

Meeting Objectives: In this Professional Learning Community (PLC) meeting, we will:

• Analyze the data or artifact(s) identified from the last meeting
• Reflect on how your planned action(s) impacted learners
• Update your plan for the next steps

Learner Data & Artifact Reflection

• Share the data or artifact(s) your team agreed to review at the last PLC meeting.
• November examples created by PLCs in elementary: Frayer model in a Nearpod lesson, asynchronous variants, cross-circular projects, assessment variants to take out 2-step problems, create warm-ups around math prerequisite skills, target skills 1-grade level below to meet needs of majority, checking live lesson recordings to see who watching
• Discuss the data with your team

Next Steps

• Decide how to move forward
• Is your action improving learner outcomes/growth?
• Do you need more data to determine if your action is beneficial?
• Will you make an adjustment to your action?

Request for Support (optional)

• Does your PLC need support with implementation of action items from coaches?

Assess

• Pluses/Deltas

December Survey for Structured Literacy: Please complete the survey for your grade band

K-2

3-5

PLC Resources

Data Wise

Finding The Right Support

Finding the Right Support Genially

Data Wise Resource Folder

PLC Operations

PLC Operations Folder

Professional Resources

Other Prof. Resources Folder

More resources will be added to the folders each month.

Data Quality Campaign

You need data to personal learning

Engagement

• How many learners are attending class as opposed to those enrolled in the course?
• How many learners are participating in the lesson live as opposed to attending the class live?
• How many learners are participating as opposed to how many learners are on track with lessons?
• How many learners are watching live/guided recordings? And for how long?
• Are you all learners regularly?
• Which classroom routines are working well?

Ann Rabbit-Woods

Christina Tyson

Office: York (Elementary School Week) Specialty Area: Reading Additional PLC Support: MTSS, Special Education

Office: Allentown (Elementary School Week) Specialty Area: Reading Additional PLC Support: Specials, MTSS, Electives

Melissa Neubert

Heather Sharp

Office: Cranberry (Elementary School Week) Specialty Area: Math Additional PLC Support: MTSS & K-5 Self-Contained/Co-Teaching

Office: Capital Campus (Elementary School Week) Specialty Area: Math Additional PLC Support: Elem ELD & MTSS

Steph Michael

Elementary School AP

Fantasic job kicking off your PLCs to get the teachers organized and ready to PLC!

Progress monitoring data

• Are IEP target goals on target or being met?
• Are learners fluent when reading?
• Are small group goals being met?
• Do skills need to be repeated or can the group advance?

• If I see _____ in this data, and I want to get more information, where do I go?
• If I'm looking for data specific to _______, how can I find that?
• Is there a piece of data that will show me….?
• I have a lot of numbers in this data, but I'm not sure what it means.
• I think these pieces of data are related; Can I talk through my notices and wonderings with you?
• As I'm reviewing data, I think it means…
• How does the data from source A interact with the data from source B?
• These two sources of data disagree. How do I know what's accurate?
• I'm trying to understand how i-Ready results impact my class. Can we meet to discuss?
• What do I do with these i-Ready results?

Math 1 PLC 1

Worked so diligently and took very specific notes on their agenda.

Reflection Data

• How comfortable was it teaching _____ skill?
• Sharing work samples on a Padlet, is the skill mastered, or is more practice needed?
• I can share ____________ from my lesson. Let's share feedback about the activity/product/organizer.
• I am really struggling with __________. Who has had success with this?

Kyla Smith

Elementary Assistant Principal

Kyla creates a detailed and organized start to every PLC.

Edio Course

• What variants/curriculum updates were successful?

• What skills/standards are coming up in the near future?
• What materials are used?
• What examples/models are used?
• Is the language used to clearly represent skills to match your learners' needs & processing?
• What soft skills are needed to be successful?

Bo Jackson

Elementary School AP

Bo is supporting Specials and Electives teachers during PLC times. He continually takes the time to support teachers throughout the whole PLC process with detailed explanations and answering questions. Thank you for supporting teachers!

Attendance Data

• What are the attendance rates for learners in your class?
• What is the correlation between overdue lessons and attendance?
• What is the correlation between attendance and graduation progress?
• What are the trends with reasons for absences?

Assessment Data

• Before Assessment Data:
• Review questions for clarity.
• are all the skills/standards represented that your learners need?
• During the Assessment Data:
• Review exit tickets/Nearpods/Classkicks etc.
• After Assessment Data:
• Is there a specific question or question type that is commonly missed?
• What is the data on the most recent class assessment?
• What is the data on assessment vs lesson completion?
• Review grammar needs in open-ended questions.

Specific groups of learners to focus on

• synchronous
• asynchronous
• bubble learners
• struggling readers/literacy needs

ELA 5 PLC 5

Great job finding your PLC groove to collaborate and support learners!

Kindergarten ELA

This grade level is doing an amazing job supporting each other to make variants, and plan for learner's needs in ELA.