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Welcome to LCHS Professional Learning Spaces, a place to engage in professional dialogue with your fellow colleagues and also to record the work that our professional learning teams are engaging in.


**Use this template to prepare your PLT Plans:**
 * Also, if you'd rather not use the PLT template for a Professional Growth Plan, here's a more specific template: [[file:TPGP Blank Template.doc]]**

Since our focus this year is on Excellent Learning Environments, here are the tools we'll use to measure the excellence of our learning environments:

 * = **Elements** ||= **Rubrics** ||
 * < **//Excellent Learning Environments (all the pieces)//** ||> [[file:ELE Rubric.pdf]] ||
 * < **//1. Classroom Culture & Expectations//** ||> [[file:1-Classroom Culture & Expectations.pdf]] ||
 * < **//2. Clearly Identified Outcomes//** ||> [[file:2-Clear Outcomes.pdf]] ||
 * < **//3. Pre-Assessment//** ||> [[file:3-PreAssessment.pdf]] ||
 * < **//4. Pre-Planning: Utilizing a "Backwards Design" Framework//** ||> [[file:4-Backwards Design.pdf]] ||
 * < **//5. Utilization of Rubrics & Exemplars//** ||> [[file:5-Rubrics & Examples.pdf]] ||
 * < //**6. Introduction of New Knowledge**// ||> [[file:6-New Knowledge.pdf]] ||
 * < //**7. Deepening Understanding of New Knowledge/Outcomes**// ||> [[file:7-Deepening Understanding.pdf]] ||
 * < //**8. Experimenting, Problem Solving, Hypothesis Building**// ||> [[file:8-Experiment, Problem-Solving, Hyposthesis.pdf]] ||
 * < //**9. Evidence Demonstrating Achievment of Outcomes**// ||> [[file:9-Evidence of Achievment.pdf]] ||
 * < //**10. Formative Assessment**// ||> [[file:10-Formative Assessment.pdf]] ||
 * < //**11. Remediation & Pyramids of Intervention**// ||> [[file:11-Remediation & Intervention.pdf]] ||
 * < //**12. Summative Assessment**// ||> [[file:12-Summative Assessment.pdf]] ||

Also, check out the discussion items posted, and add your thoughts to the debate and deliberation about issues of concern to education at LCHS and also education as a broad discipline.
From the August 31 Staff Meeting: media type="custom" key="10327174"

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