Professional Learning Communities

TARSS Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are designed to support trainers working in early education in Minnesota. This is a developing program, and our team will be learning alongside participants as we generate ideas and topics to enrich the experience. PLCs are offered at no cost to participants.

PLCs are FREE and Develop-approved!

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2025 PLC schedule

Course Writer PLC

  • Real-time meetings on Zoom from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. CST on 1/9, 2/13, 3/13, 4/17, 5/8, and 6/12

This PLC meets once a month on Zoom and includes about one hour of work a month to be completed on your own time. It is intended for people who are new to course writing or looking to connect with other course writers. Registration closes 1/5/25.

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New Trainer PLC

  • Real-time meetings on Zoom from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. CST on 1/14, 2/11, 3/11, 4/15, 5/13, and 6/10

This PLC meets once a month on Zoom and includes about one hour of work a month to be completed on your own time. It is intended for people who are new to training. Registration closes 1/9/25.

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Learn more about TARSS PLCs

TARSS PLCs will:

  • Use real world opportunities to improve practice
  • Support innovation through exposure to new research and emerging technologies
  • Provide space for reflection

Professional learning communities can be one of the most powerful ways to deliver professional learning because they provide “an ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve” (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many, & Mattos, 2016). Learning within the professional learning system occurs in a variety of ways through both group and one-on-one opportunities such as training, coaching, mentoring, modeling, and observing.

Minnesota Department of Education

PLCs are hosted online. The content will include short readings, discussion boards, and facilitated live Zoom sessions. Trainers who participate in PLCs will receive approved training hours in Develop. These hours can count towards your trainer membership renewal.

Expectations for PLC participants

Participating in a PLC requires a 6-month time commitment. Each PLC has a different schedule, please review the information for each PLC above.

Participants may participate in one PLC at a time, which means that you can only apply to one PLC.