<p>I believe the biggest factors to success in PLC's are the belief in collaboration and transparency in dialogue. It's also important to focus on what's working as we tend to look at what doesn't work very often in education. Further, making the work time feel like extra moments with colleagues is also highly valuable. The sense of having 'one more thing' to do weighs heavily in educational culture. This also supports trauma informed approaches to education as discussions of self-care can be woven into the fabric of meetings periodically as well.&nbsp;</p>