Identifying the benefits of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) can help you understand the power of collaboration. Educators play a critical role in preparing, delivering, and assessing learning. Working collaboratively to ensure students are provided instruction that positively influences learning can benefit all learners. Imagine you are a teacher at a K-3 grade school where your principal has asked you to oversee the PLC committee on your campus. As the school year is approaching, you are required to create a digital presentation for teachers on assessment literacy, data literacy, and how PLCs can support teachers in analyzing data, monitoring student progress, and adjusting instruction to better meet the needs of students. The 10-12 slide digital presentation must: Define PLC and the benefits of collaborating with colleagues as part of the assessment cycle to assess student progress and guide instructional planning Explain how the PLC can assist teachers as they move through their assessment cycles. Define and compare data literacy and assessment literacy, explaining how to use both to improve instruction. Summarize a vision for the school, as a whole, for using PLCs to collaborate and plan for learning. Address technological tools or resources that can be used to monitor student progress and share data with the PLC. Opportunities to include students in the assessment cycle process. Model appropriate strategies to provide feedback to students and families. Include a title slide, reference slide, and speaker’s notes in your digital presentation. Support your presentation with 2-3 scholarly resources. While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented. Allocate at least 2 hours in the field to support this field experience. A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is defined as a group of educators that meet regularly to share expertise and work collaboratively to improve the learning of all students. Most school environments implement PLCs to provide an opportunity for grade level teachers to work together through the assessment cycle, analyzing student performance data, and determining strategies to improve instruction for students. It is critical for this collaborative analysis to include all students, including those who are above, at, and below grade level, to ensure instruction is stimulating and challenging. For this field experience, interview a K-3 teacher with PLC experience who has worked collaboratively with a team of teachers to analyze student data, determine appropriate intervention strategies to support all learning levels, and monitor learning progress to demonstrate growth during learning. In addition, interview an instructional coach or administrator who has facilitated a PLC. While some states may refer to this community in a different way, the goals are similar.  In your interviews, ask the following questions: How does your school implement PLCs? What do you focus on during the PLC meetings? How do PLCs support collaboration with colleagues to identify common curriculum goals and evaluate progress towards the goals? How would you change or modify PLCs? What is the biggest change you have seen in student learning since you started collaborating with other educators?

Choose 1 qualitative article from your Topical Reference List, and compose a 2-page review of it. Your review must include 2 sections: (1) a summary of the article, and (2) a critical analysis of the article. The article must be from a peer reviewed journal and written in the last five years. Your summary must include: The purpose of the study; A description of participants/sample; The research design/data analysis (narrative, grounded theory, case study, phenomenology, ethnography, etc.); The method of data collection (questionnaire, document analysis, observation, open-ended or structured interview, etc.); and The results. Your analysis must include: Opportunities for further research not already stated in the article, Threats to validity or undocumented bias on the part of the researcher(s), Other original insight or criticism, and Implications of the findings.

Database ApplicationsNoSQL, Microsoft Access, and Pivot TablesComplete BOTH parts of this assignment.Part A: Write a 500-1000 word paper using Word discussing NoSQL. Use at least two sources outside your text and course material for this paper. Do not use Wikipedia. Use APA format for the paper, and be sure to cite all your sources using APA format. Submit your Word document for grading.Part B: Use the Week 3 Assignment Pet_Database File for this section of the assignment. In the PET table, delete the PetDOB field and add a numeric PetCost field. Populate this field with appropriate values. Save the changes to the PET table. Create SQL queries to do the following:Display the last name and phone number of all dog owners. Use a subquery to do this.Display the first and last name of owners and the type of animal of all unknown breeds.Display the pet name and owner last name of all dogs.Save all 3 queries.Export the PET table to an Excel spreadsheet. Create a Pivot table. Have the cost display as currency. Take screen shots* of two different views without a report filter and paste the screen shots into a Word document. Then add a report filter and choose one value for it, take a screen shot, then choose a different value for the same filter and take another screen shot. Paste those into the Word document containing the first two screen shots. You should now have 4 screen shots in this Word document. Save the Word document as Screen shots. Save the pivot table as Pivot.You will have 4 files submitted for this assignment: the Word document with your paper from Part A, the Microsoft Access Pet_Database file, the Screen shots Word file, and the Pivot file.*To take a screen shot, have the proper information on your screen, hit the PrntScr button, and then paste into the Word document.