The term PLC stands for professional learning community. It is a group of educators that regularly meet for a common issue that focuses on a common practice towards school improvement. Some examples of topics that PLC's could discuss are established learning outcomes, collaboratively forming or improving SMART goals, building-wide criteria to assess student work, etc. (DuFour, 2007). It is important to note what a PLC is not- a whole- school community, a general grade level or department team meeting, or a new program adopted by a district or building that teachers are working on. While all of these things are important, the term professional learning community can often be used to broadly to apply to topics that would already happen in school buildings. Professional Learning Communities have a lot of positive similarities to the learning communities mentioned in Chapter Four of Zepeda. Learning communities, like PLC's, have the purpose of developing teachers