Cedar Falls Community School District - Professional Learning Communities

1002 West First Street, Cedar Falls, IA 50613 • 319-553-3000 • Dr. David Stoakes, Superintendent

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It is the policy of the Cedar Falls Community School District not to illegally discriminate in either: its educational programs on the basis of race, religion, creed, socioeconomic status, color, sex, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or genetic information; or its employment practices on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ethnic background, age, disability, or genetic information. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact the district's Equity Coordinator, Dr Adrian Talbot, Director of Human Resources, James L. Robinson Administrative Center, 1002 West First St. Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613, 319-553-3000.

Information

PLC Conference Brochure download
Professional Learning Communities at Work download
City of Cedar Falls Currents! Article download
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic (and more) for the 21st Century download
Educators Praise PLC Process download

Coming Up

March 2^ndis the last professional development day for the year. K-6 educators will dig in to the intervention component of the PLC (professional learning community) process. They will spend the day looking at how do we as a team respond when students aren’t learning and how do we provide enrichment opportunities to those that are proficient.

The collaborative teams of junior high and high school educators will focus on the continuous process of monitoring student learning through the use of common formative assessments. The focus shifts from “giving a test to determine your grade” to using formative assessments to determine students’ progress towards a specific learning goal.

Ask your child’s teacher how their work in a collaborative team has changed the testing process and how they already use common formative assessments to increase learning opportunities for students.