Professional Learning Communities Articles

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) refer to a system of how a school collaboratively functions to improve students’ experience and achievement. When a school works as a PLC, teachers and teams regularly meet, improve their own learning, and plan how to respond to student need, whether students need intervention or enrichment. Find blog posts related to professional learning communities below!

PLCs and Flex Time: A Strategy to Meet the Needs of All Students

Ashley Mauger2026-04-21T19:11:38-04:00Tags: enrichment, intervention|

How can teachers meet the needs of all students? It may seem like a daunting task.Teachers really want to help students. But, kids all have unique interests as well as socio-emotional and academic needs. In this post we'll look at how a school that functions as a real PLC, [...]

Collaborating Teachers Can Transform Learning

Ashley Mauger2025-02-24T16:11:56-05:00

We all want to fit in among our peers. When we’re little kids wanting to play together on the playground, when we’re teens in middle school anxious for the approval of our classmates, and when we’re adults out in the job force — no one wants to feel left out [...]

Effective School Staff Meetings

Ashley Mauger2022-06-26T17:17:13-04:00

As a school administrator, how can you create effective school staff meetings? Likely, you’ve been in all kinds of meetings -- some productive and even inspiring, others...not so much. What makes a great staff meeting? We’d love to hear your thoughts! We’ve collected a list of eight things that [...]

How PLCs Facilitate Competency Ed

Ashley Mauger2024-06-26T14:17:51-04:00

"...we didn’t set out to become a competency based learning environment. We had actually simply asked the question -- building a vision mission etc. -- “What is it that we want for our learners?” and we started to build from there. And we felt like the PLC model really [...]

How to Make Your Flex Time Implementation Successful

Ashley Mauger2026-04-21T19:17:21-04:00Tags: Flex Period|

What makes or breaks a new program at a school? Often, preparedness and having all (or most) staff onboard. All of the systems of support need to be in place. If a school is considering adding a flex period to their school schedule for extra help, intervention, remediation, enrichment, etc.; [...]

Why PLCs are Key to Student Success

Ashley Mauger2025-01-11T17:46:40-05:00

Does your school have a Professional Learning Community? If you do, what does this look like? More importantly… Is it something you look forward to? Even if you do not have one at your school, likely you’ve heard of them. Professional Learning Communities. What are they? Is this just [...]

The Key to Differentiation in Competency Based Education: A Flexible Block Schedule

Ashley Mauger2026-04-21T19:40:18-04:00Tags: Flex Period|

If you’re in the education sphere, you've likely heard of competency based education. It’s been growing in popularity across the country, and rapidly becoming the focus of not only higher educational curriculum, but secondary schools as well. Competency based education focuses, not simply on grades, but outcomes based on actual [...]