Frist PLC Meeting...

My Action Research Project is officially up and running!  We had our first PLC meeting for the action research project.  All of the teachers involved are very supportive along with a super supportive principal.  I presented on what a PLC was, had an agenda for us to follow and was very mindful of the time and the other commitments teachers had after the PLC meeting.  After my presentation we talked out the goals and what we wanted to accomplish with the PLC.  We also set specific goals for what we want each grade level that is involved to be able to do by the end of the first six weeks.  2nd grade has the most basic goals and we expanded from their for each of the other grade levels up to 5th grade.  The best part is that I am not going to have to grade all of the papers that each student writes!!  We decided on our next meeting.  I have a couple of things that I have to type up and have ready next week for the PLC.  I need to type up notes from the meeting, I need to write up what the goals are for each grade level and I need to create a rubric that can be used to grade the writing samples.  I had several teachers and the principal come up to me and tell me what I good job I did leading the meeting and how prepared I was.  I hope that we get the results that we are desiring, but I know we will all give a great effort!