It's time for better PLCs.

When PLCs answer the questions that teachers have about student learning, student achievement grows. Click here and read about a model of PLC that places teachers at the center of the learning.

A Better PLC

CITY's model of Professional Learning Community trains participants to reflect on their teaching, look closely at student work, share dilemmas of practice, read and discuss professional articles, and serve as supportive friends in providing feedback that improves professional practice and student achievement.

Learn more about CITY's model of Professional Learning Community

Educators from throughout Southern Arizona will convene in Tucson, Arizona for The Social and Emotional Learning Summer Institute presented by CITY Center for Collaborative Learning. Participants will select from sessions from four domains:

Principles of Social and Emotional Learning
Positive Behavior Intervention and Support
Trauma Informed Practice
Teaching for Social Justice

Where does food come from? What happens to garbage when I throw it away? Could an apple core or a banana peel help something else grow?

Come learn the science of composting and build your own classroom composting bin! Come visit Las Milpitas and take a tour with Frank DiPietraPaul from CITY Center for Collaborative Learning’s Farm to School Program. Then, learn what happens to the things we compost, and discover how to observe both visible and invisible changes over time through hands-on, minds-on learning.

Upcoming events

Documentary Screening: Teaching in Arizona, 28 March 2019
Healthy Bodies, Healthy Brains: What Children Need for Success (Southern Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children), 6 April, 2019
Garbage to Groceries: Engaging Students with Hand-on Worm Composting Bins, 20 April, 2019
PLC Summer Institute, 3-7, June, 2019
Social and Emotional Learning Summer Institute, 10-13 June 2019.