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Frederick County schools to expand professional learning communities, outline middle-school schedule options
Summary
District leaders described plans to expand Professional Learning Communities across grade bands, schedule a large Solution Tree professional-development day Sept. 21, and propose new middle-school master-schedule scenarios to lengthen instructional blocks and introduce rotating electives.
Dr. Julie Myers, the district’s senior director of secondary education, told the Instruction Committee on May 11 that Frederick County Public Schools is expanding Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) across schools and grade bands and will use data from those teams to drive instruction.
"PLCs are made up of three core pillars and four critical questions," Joanne, a PLC presenter, said in the meeting, summarizing the model’s emphasis on collaborative, data-driven instruction. "What do we want all of our students to learn? How do we know if they've learned it? What will we do if some students don't learn it? How will we extend learning for students who are already proficient?"
Why it matters: District presenters said PLCs are intended to…
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