ABSTRACT
The sole purpose of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) is to utilize a data-focused approach to improve student learning. PLCs are quite simply the single most effective strategy for improving student and teacher growth. The logistical aspect of PLCs is imbedded in every part of the PLC process. Organizing a school’s master schedule to allow for common planning times has numerous benefits including instructional coordination and integration, as well as fostering peer learning and continuous improvement. Teachers must have common planning times with their like-subject or grade-level peers. Teachers are expected, through the norming process they create at the beginning of the school year, to prepare rigorous lessons that reach various learners found within each specific group of students. Having a shared planning time among each PLC group will also allow teachers to work together on a daily basis and should increase their efficiency during the meeting.
