Using your PLCs to their fullest potential

Erin Canavan

By Erin Canavan
Community contribution / August 22, 2017

Professional Learning Communities, better known as PLCs, are the latest response to systemic imperatives surrounding professional learning and staff collaboration in schools.

But for all the talk of the effectiveness of PLCs, are they really being used to their fullest potential?

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This story appeared in the September 2017 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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