Last year, school MBLC teams were grouped together in PLCs. This year, PLCs are interest-driven; each member of your MBLC team is invited to choose which PLC to attend. (You and your MBLC team colleagues can decide among yourselves if you want to be all together in one PLC, or spread out and share back to each other.) The PLCs will meet 5 times between October and June.
The three, interest-driven PLC Choices are:
Project-based Unit/Assessment Design for MBL: This PLC will be a space where teachers can share learning, questions, dilemmas and successes in crafting project-based units or assessments. We will learn about and explore how to craft projects that are culturally responsive and that enable students to explore ideas and develop criticality while building academic skills. We also discuss and share ideas about how to integrate mastery-based approaches into projects.
Grading for Accuracy and Equity: This PLC will be a space where educators and school leaders can explore culturally responsive-sustaining, mastery-based approaches to feedback and grading. Participants will explore tools and systems together, discuss challenges and dilemmas, and share resources.
CRSE Foundations: This PLC will offer space to explore culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE). What does CRSE look like in classrooms and schools? How do CRSE and MBL interplay to benefit academic growth and well-being? What does CRSE call upon us to learn and unlearn? We'll look into these questions—and yours!—as we work with the three pillars of CRSE, and build capacity with key principles and practices of this powerful approach to an effective, affirming, learner-centered school.
The first PLC meeting will be in person at the Fall Community Gathering on October 24.