Friday, September 18, 2009

Maree,
You are doing such a good job.


Mrs. Monring

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Meeting Minutes 9/15

PLC Mtg. 9/15/09
Attending: Morning-Cain, Henderson, Crim (left at 11:35), McCabe (arrived late), Burkhead, Pate, Shrum, Farthing, McKenzie (arrived late).

Ms. Morning discussed # of observations, formative vs. summative

For people getting summative evaluations:

There will be a pre-conference; you need to have the TE Self-Assessment completed before this pre-conference & no later than 9/20; print one out for your observing administrator & save it online for yourself. Pate/McKenzie/Crim will not do this because they are on a different type of observation format.

At pre-conference, 1st observation will be set – it will be a formal observation. If your administrator is Ms. Morning, she will discuss teaching practices with you, including things like how you group students, what your teaching strategies are.

After the first observation, then you will have a post-conference to discuss 1st observation & self-assessment. IGP goals will be set collaboratively during the post-conference. The IGP will be turned into administrators.

For people who are on formative assessments, Mr. Maglio will meet with you to set IGP goals. He may or may not observe you before you set IGP goals. If you are on Ms. Morning’s list, she *will* observe you before setting IGP goals with you. Formative people still have to do self-assessment before 9/30.

Be collecting evidence for the teacher eval & for your IGP throughout the year. Collect evidence of collaborating with each other.

Ms. Morning discussed specific examples of evidence that could be used for each point of the teacher evaluation form. Suggested: keep records of meetings that are held for specific areas or projects, emails and meeting minutes, work samples from students, and there are more examples at the bottom of page 21 of the self-evaluation form.

Ms. Morning suggests that we will need to provide extra support to core classroom teachers for standard 2 of the evaluation.

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Reviewed mission statement. We need to type the mission statement and send it to the leadership team and post it on our doors.

Meeting times were set as from 11:15 to 12:00.

Ms. Farthing brought up the 5th grade poetry project and some discussion was had about having 5th grade do this in conjunction with Ms. Farthing – but it’s due in 2 weeks. Ms. McCabe talked about her experiences with doing the poetry project at Konnoak. Ms. Farthing, do you have a link to info about this? The poems are due 9/25. Ms. Farthing gave the info to Ms. Morning to share with the 5th grade teachers.

Last, Ms. McKenzie showed this blog which was set up for us to share info and to collaborate. Please see her if you have questions or difficulties with it.

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If any information is incomplete or incorrect, please leave a comment on this entry and Ms. McKenzie will correct it ASAP.

Meeting Minutes 9/9

This is where the minutes for our 9/9/2009 meeting will go.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Specialists PLC Meeting Minutes Form

Specialists--Feel free to comment on any changes that might enhance our PLC Minutes Form.

North Hills Elementary PLC/Specialist meeting Sheet


Date_____________ PBS: (__ min.):

Chairperson_____________________ Are the students motivated?
Weekly Target: (Objective)
Announcements: (3 min) T1: ______________________
T2: ______________________
T3: ______________________


Collaboration (____ min.): If not, how will they become motivated?
Share Best Practices/ Activities:
What do the specialists need to know?
Weekly Target:
T1: __________________________
T2: __________________________
T3: __________________________
T4: __________________________ Where are the most discipline problems
occurring?
Sharing of ideas, strategies &
How will the specialists find out? Resources:
Share Best Practices/ Activities:






What will we do if they don’t find out? How will we know if it is working?
Weekly Assessment
T1: ______________________
T2: ______________________
T3: ______________________



How will we know if we accomplished our goal?
Weekly Assessment
T1: _________________________
T2: _________________________
T3: _________________________
T4: _________________________




Reading Integration: (__ min):

What reading skills need to be reinforced?
Weekly Target: (Objective)
T1: ________________________
T2: ________________________
T3: ________________________
T4: ________________________

How will they be reinforced?
Share Best Practices/ Activities:





How will we know if reinforcement is working?
Weekly Assessment:
T1: ________________________
T2: ________________________
T3: ________________________
T4: ________________________




Issues (Questions, concerns for the Leadership team) (3 min)
____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________


What great things are happening? What are some opportunities for improvement? (5 mins)

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North Hills Specialists Mission Statement

The mission of the specialists at North Hills Elementary School is to collaborate with each other and other staff members to extend, encourage, enhance, and enrich students' learning experiences.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Welcome to the North Hills Elementary School Specialists' Blog!