Using Professional Learning Communities to fight the dropout crisis

Professional Learning Community experts D'Ette Cowan and Ann Neeley will discuss how to use PLCs as an infrastructure for dropout prevention and school improvement during the next National Dropout Prevention Center radio Webcast, on Nov. 9.

During the presentation, which begins at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time, Cowan and Neeley (both of the nonprofit education research group SEDL) will talk about how to build a PLC, suggest ways to use PLCs to address the dropout crisis and identify leadership actions that support PLCs that are focused on dropout prevention.

The webcast is free and no registration is required. To join in, log onto www.dropoutprevention.org/webcast up to 30 minutes early. If you have problems connecting, call 864-656-4550.

In the meantime, study up: Supplementary materials are available online at www.dropoutprevention.org/webcast.