Have a Good Life: When PLC is not just a meeting with Larry Villiard Transformative Principal 270 1

When PLC is not just a meeting with Larry Villiard Transformative Principal 270 1

Sunday, March 17, 2019 by jethrojones

Larry Villiard is the principal of a K-12 school in Bruce Wisconsin.

Larry has been there since 1995
Moved from a junior high school to a middle school.
About 500 students
2 classes per grade
Middle school has a separate schedule from everyone else. Extended core classes 80 minutes long.
The staff is the key to making kids successful.
How has the PLC approach helped you.
Took ideas from the staff to make it successful. Transitions getting kids moving around more.
Give kids 20 minutes of homework time during the class period.
Lengthened class periods decreased ODRs.
A small little man can't make all the decisions.
People couldn't believe that people just went about their business when they visited the school.
In one school year, we lost superintendent and elementary principal. I was going to be moved out of my comfort zone.
They came back like new staff, like new people.
A PLC cannot be a set of meetings!
A PLC has to become your culture.
Take what is working best and eliminate what is not working.
Data Days 3 times per year - drives all interventions
Were dead last in our achievement and now are in 1st place.

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