Establishing a PLC Direction

Establishing the direction of your professional learning community (PLC) consists of coming to a consensus about the focus and direction of your work for the school year and formulating a guiding question. Capturing the focus and direction of your PLC work in the form of a question serves many purposes. First, questions inherently stimulate thinking and the pondering of practice, which are the foundational aspects of PLC work. Second, questions invite wonder about how the teaching and learning conditions in one’s classroom or school could be different and, ultimately, improved upon.