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School-Level Professional Learning Communities Survey
 
 
 
School Name
   
 
 
 
Date Completed
 
 
 
Assignment
 
 
 
Please complete this survey considering how often each activity or structure occurs at your current school.
 
 
 
Professional Learning Community (PLC) Activities

Continuous Inquiry

1. Teachers in my school meet in grade-level or department teams to analyze data.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
2. Teachers in my school meet in grade-level or department teams to plan, test and modify strategies as a result of what they learn from the data.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
Collaboration

3. School staff members actively work together to use data to solve problems.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
4. Collaboration is valued and viewed as a productive and important way to address the achievement gap in my school.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
Deprivatizing Practice

5. Teachers are open to sharing their educational practices and their thoughts behind choosing and implementing specific practices.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
6. Teachers provide other teachers with realistic and practical feedback about teaching practices.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
Reflective Dialogue

7. My school has formal opportunities to share and collectively reflect on practice at the school-wide and grade/department levels.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
8. Opportunities to share and collectively reflect on practice are considered critical to making data-based adjustments to programs and teaching practice.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
Systems and Structures to Support Professional Learning Communities

Common Practice

9. Work in my school is based on clear agreements about expectations about implementation of best practices (whether teaching or leadership) that support a standards-/research-based common curriculum and set of instructional strategies.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
10. Teachers/staff members in my school use both formal and informal observations to develop shared pictures of current levels of curriculum and instruction implementation.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
Shared Norms and Values

11. Professional learning communities at my school have a shared set of expectations and beliefs about equitable outcomes for all students.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
12. Professional learning communities at my school have a shared set of expectations for how we use inquiry and implement common practice.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
Systems Approach

13. All levels of the school system (district, site administration and teachers) are accountable for improving instruction.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
14. Teachers/staff members are held accountable for implementing professional learning community-related activities.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
A Focus on Student Learning

15. Activities of my school’s professional learning communities are focused both on improving teaching and learning for all students and closing the achievement gap.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
 
 
16. Teachers and administrators at my school hold themselves individually and collectively accountable for results.
 
Never
 
Rarely
 
Sometimes
 
Often
 
Always
 
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