This professional learning community (PLC) is for anyone who is an ELA educator in a school setting in Massachusetts. This PLC will be a place for English Language Arts educators to share in problems of practices, develop ideas, and learn together on developments in the field. We’ll be gathering in our virtual meetings as partners and be in communication throughout.
This PLC is participant-driven and topics will be decided by the group with facilitation by Kristen Hamilton.
Topics of our conversation may include:
- Exploring challenges faced by English Language Arts teachers
- Sharing example problems of our practice as a group and conferring together about potential solutions
- Exploring resources that can address the needs of students of the global majority and other marginalized communities
- Collaborating with other educators
We’ll be meeting for 8 sessions, online, once a month between October 2024 – May 2025. If you attend at least 6 sessions, participate actively, complete a final presentation or reflection, and register for the PDP option, you can receive 15 PDPs in content, so please come prepared to share (confidentially of course) any current situations, questions you have, and your expertise.
The sessions will follow a structure to support our work which will look like:
- Welcome and review of agenda
- Conversations about our shared practice
- Protocol to help focus the conversation
- Closing and gratitude
Please note: If you would like PDPs, you will need to choose the $100 registration option. This fee covers the cost of administering PDPs. While participants can join at any time, PDPs are only provided to those who attend at least 6 sessions.