Professional Learning Communities
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Typically meet monthly across the school year and include 10-15 participants.
Graduates of our Salem State leadership programs can extend the collaborative leadership learning that is a cornerstone of those programs.
Facilitated by expert program faculty and area leaders, these groups provide participants with the opportunity to gain insight into problems of practice or leadership dilemmas and to share their own expertise and insights with others.
Typically meet monthly across the school year and include 12-20 participants.
Designed for those holding formal leadership roles in local schools and districts, these collaborative groups bring together leaders across schools and districts in order to share dilemmas of practice, provide insights for each other, and to dig into shared learning around critical areas of leadership practice.
Pop-up
PLCs
Focused Learning Sessions
Typically meet 2-3 times across 4-6 weeks and include 10-15 participants.
These pop-ups provide shorter-form shared learning experience for educational leaders and aspiring leaders. Focused on a pressing topic in the field of school leadership, pop-up PLCs allow for a shorter, community-based learning experience. Across 2-3 sessions, participants come together to learn about a central topic in educational leadership through shared readings, expert guest speakers, or other shared resources. PLC members have the opportunity to dig into the topic, in light of their own leadership experience, walking away with new knowledge, skills, and strategies.
Typically meet across the school year and include 10-15 participants.
These PLCs offer a group of educational leaders a shared learning and meaning making opportunity, across an academic year, focused on a key leadership topic or professional role.
For example, a focused PLC on instructional coaching would include a mix of learning for participants in order to support the development of new coaching models and strategies, alongside opportunities to share from their own coaching experiences in order to receive advice and input from other community members.