Professional Learning What?

When faculty maintain a sharp-focus on student achievement and how to get students to cooperate for their learning, maintain a spirit of common ownership & responsibility for that achievement; their students will achieve success (Nathan, 2008).  Simply described a professional learning community is a "group of people sharing and critically interrogating their practice in an ongoing, reflective, collaborative, and learning-focused way, and then operating as a collective entity" (Peskin, Katz, & Lazare, 2009). 

Thankfully the days of newbies having to make it on their own, the isolation they felt no longer has to encompass them.  The operational professional learning community is for all students, as well as for new or well-seasoned faculty.  Students and faculty, and faculty with faculty all focused on the successful learning of all parties; a PLC is born!