Dr. Cindy Blitz, Director of the Center for Effective School Practices, presented at the Annual 2015  Learning Forward Conference.  The presentation titled Online and Hybrid Models of Professional Learning Communities, featured her report on the benefits and challenges of online PLCs relative to traditional face-to-face PLCs, available on the Institute of Education Sciences web site: http://ies.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=REL2013003