Tools & Resources
Professional learning communities are strengthened when educators collaborate and share solutions. Here you’ll find samples of tools you can copy and distribute freely within your team, school, and district to guide your work. Use these resources to inspire, organize, plan, measure, and celebrate your PLC journey.
K-2 Evidence of Effectiveness Data Template
Please use this template when submitting or updating achievement data (primary grades) for your model PLC application.
3-5 Evidence of Effectiveness Data Template (updated 032620)
6-8 Evidence of Effectiveness Data Template (updated 032620)
9-12 Evidence of Effectiveness Data Template
Please use this template when submitting or updating high school achievement data for your model PLC application. Please note the 9-11 and senior templates are in separate tabs within the spreadsheet.
District Evidence of Effectiveness Data Template
Please use this template when submitting or updating achievement data (district level) for your model PLC application.
Data Protocol
Fillable PDF
Tight Elements of a Professional Learning Community
Action Steps to Bring Mission Statements to Life
Problem Analysis Form
Fruita Middle School principal Brig Leane created this problem analysis form, as included in his ASCD article.
Nine Common Threads of a PLC
Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn
Chapter 8, Common Threads
Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Gayle Karhanek
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A Big-Picture Look at Professional Learning Communities
A Big Picture Look at Professional Learning Communities