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 * PLC’s as a place for collaboration to develop best practices in teaching.
 * Involve parents and students so that different teaching methodologies will be accepted and embraced.
 * Are we allowing teachers to learn (ie. professional development using 21st C “techniques”)using what we know about learning? Most conferences and professional development opportunities involve teachers sitting in large lecture formats listening to a person talk.
 * Successful change comes slowly but intentionally.
 * Through backwards design, and knowing where we want to go, we can chart a path forward to a place where the outcomes and successes are easier understood.
 * Increase the students’ and the teachers’ comfort with risk.
 * Will our parents be okay with the school as a lab? Prototypes so involve failures.
 * “Infect” the mindsets of teachers and students with “I can” message.
 * Renew teaching methods with “teacher told me” to “I can”.