The 15-Day Challenge: Putting All the Pieces
of Daily Life in a PLC at Work® Together Workshop

Lexington, Kentucky | December 4–5, 2025 [TO BE UPDATED FOR 2026]

Venue

Hilton Lexington/Downtown
369 West Vine St
Lexington, KY 40507
Directions

Parking: Complimentary self-park, $22 for valet.

Workshop Overview

Your school is committed to building a professional learning community—but how do you sustain the work of PLCs throughout the year? Through this two-day interactive workshop, you will discover a 15-day challenge that has helped schools across the nation strengthen their PLCs. Maria Nielsen shares how to jump-start the work of collaborative teams and bring the PLC at Work® process to life in classrooms, schools, and districts.

Learning Outcomes

Clarify the work of collaborative teams.
Develop collective commitments for each team.
Establish steps for a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
Determine short- and long-term SMART goals.
Recognize how to use depth of knowledge (DOK) levels to teach and assess at the rigor and complexity of the standards.
Complete a 15-day pacing guide for a unit of study.
Establish a learning-assessing cycle for a unit of study.
Anticipate and plan for Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions as the unit is planned.
Design a plan for taking the 15-day challenge back to your entire school or district.
Acquire a toolkit of templates and organizers to take back to your school or district.

Maria Nielsen

Maria Nielsen, educational speaker and author, specializes in supporting teachers and administrators in the areas of PLCs, RTI, school culture, curriculum design, the highly engaged classroom, and assessment systems. Her life’s work is to help schools build successful systems to ensure high levels of student learning.

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Supporting Documents

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Certificate of Participation

You will receive a certificate of participation within six weeks after the event concludes.

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The 15-Day Challenge: Putting All the Pieces of Daily Life in a PLC at Work® Together Workshop