PLC Facilitator - MS

Position

Middle School PLC Facilitator – Specialist (Internal posting only for current staff)

North Branch Area Middle School

Provide leadership and support to a PLC team and the individual PLC team members.

• Licensed North Branch staff member on teacher contract.
• Tenured teacher with three or more years of teaching experience.
• Commitment to serve a possible three years in the position.
• Experience in peer coaching and/or mentoring.
• Proficiency in working with computerized documents and technology.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective peer classroom observation skills.
• Strong organizational and collaborative skills.

• Coordinate professional development sessions for PLCs.
• Coordinate PLC meeting dates, times, and locations (minimum 3 hours per month).
• Establish PLC meeting agendas, summarize meeting progress, submit a monthly PLC leader's reflective log, and determine follow-up support, needed training, resources, and implementation actions.
• Submit PLC team's classroom instructional focus and formative assessment plans that align with site-specific improvement initiatives, site Q Comp goal, and district-wide improvement initiatives.
• Meet individually throughout the year with PLC members to discuss progress on professional development plans.
• Collaborate with PLC leaders, administration, and site Q Comp advisor.
• Serve on the site Q Comp advisory team and site staff development committee.
• Complete up to seven classroom observations with PLC members.
• Collect, review, follow up, and submit PLC team members' updated professional development plans (PDP).
• Provide monthly update on PLC team's progress, classroom implementation strategies and formative assessment results that support site Q Comp goal.
• Facilitate and monitor evidence of student progress and use of formative assessments.
• Collect and/or present site data and testing results to PLC members and site Q Comp advisory team.
• Participate in annual ongoing professional development and leadership training.

Salary Augmentation: $2,250 per year + $500 per year for serving as a site staff development representative for a total of $2,750 per year. Up to a half-day substitute teacher as needed from October – April for release time to conduct observations, to plan and prepare for PLC teams, and to work with other site PLC facilitators and district Q Comp advisors.