Mike Mattos - Steve Barkley

Vertical Year-End Goal Setting

When defining PLC in a podcast with me, Mike Mattos, one of the authors of Learning By Doing, A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work, suggested that rather than just the group of teacher working together, the larger organization was in fact the professional learning community. If a school commits to the process, the […]

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What is a PLC?

I recently had an opportunity to record a podcast with Mike Mattos and Dr. Anthony Muhammad, two of the authors of “Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities – Fourth Edition.”  They both have extensive backgrounds guiding stakeholders in building PLCs that maximize student success and have been recognized for their accomplishments and […]

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Podcast: Professional Learning Communities at Work

Two authors of Learning by Doing (Fourth Edition), Mike Mattos and Anthony Muhammad, discuss the powerful impact of PLCs. They define a PLC as an ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. The discussion explores shifts in […]

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