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= = = Courageous Conversations Professional Learning Community (PLC) Dickson Elementary =

Opportunities for the members of our proposed Professional Learning Community (PLC):

2. Provide guidance for funding grant-funded activities at Dickson :
=== · awarding mini-grants to members of the faculty/staff ·  selecting members of the faculty/staff to attend the annual “Closing the Gap” conference (to be held Mon-Wed, March 29-31, 2010) ·  purchasing materials for the student Media Center and the faculty/staff professional development library ·  collecting information from other schools/ districts about what's working for them to close the gap (Refer to the work of Geoffrey Canada in the Harlem Children’s Zone  ===

that we mentioned at the faculty meeting on Wed: [] )
=== ·  other activities that are compatible with the goals of the grant, including Austin’s suggestion that we set another date for a movie/literature discussion ===

=== 3.  Develop your own “action plan” for how you could implement strategies that we addressed in our summer workshop. As the attached flier about the new Research and Professional Development (RPD indicates, we invite you to participate in workshops about developing your own classroom-based action plans. ===