Over the past ten years, the term professional learning community (PLC) has become the buzzword in schools and in most cases refers to a meeting. This meeting can range from a faculty meeting, a department meeting, to a group of teachers who teach the same subject. What happens at these meetings is decided by administrators and can range from policy trainings, best practices, and emergency trainings to a college journal club. According to the principal architect of the CPL process, Richard DuFour, this perception that a CPL constitutes any type of meeting is false. “First, the PLC is the organization as a whole, not the individual teams within it. Although collaborative teams are an essential part of the PLC process, the sum is greater than the individual parts. Much of the work of a PLC cannot be done by a team but rather requires a school-wide or district-wide effort. Second, the PLC process has a widespread and ongoing impact on the structure and culture of the school. If educators meet regularly with their peers for the sole purpose of resuming their usual activities, they do not function as a CLP. Thus, the PLC process is much more than a meeting” (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, 2010, p. 10). The difference between a faculty meeting and a PLC is that actions must be taken based on the knowledge gained from discussions during the meeting. In most cases, teachers do not put into practice the information obtained during a school meeting. This can be due to a variety of reasons, such as not having or not having had time to implement the information, not agreeing with policies, or becoming cynical about the continuing cycle “new” initiatives. For a true PLC to work, administrators and teachers must dedicate time and effort to achieve...... middle of paper ......Communities at Work: Bringing Big Ideas to Life . Paper presented at Solution Tree, Salt Lake City, UT.DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. (2010). Learning by doing (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press. DuFour, R. and Dufour, R. (November 2013). Building the collaborative culture of a professional learning community at work. Paper presented at Solution Tree, Salt Lake City, Utah. Eaker, R. (November 2013). What it means to be a professional learning community. Paper presented at Solution Tree, Salt Lake City. Sonju, B. (November 2013). The big stones: precise actions that make the difference for PLC leaders and teams. Paper presented at Solution Tree, Salt Lake City, UT. Williams, KC (November 2013). Are you interested or engaged? Reconnect with the why of automatons’ work. Paper presented at Solution Tree, Salt Lake City, Utah.