Meeting Minutes 2/16

Attending: Farthing, Burkhead, Muzzy, McKenzie, Pate, McCabe (arrived late), Morning (arrived late), Maglio (arrived late)

The lesson plans for the Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 unit will be collected. They are due to Ms. Morning on 2/26.

Ms. McKenzie introduced the specialists to the Watsons wiki. Later one of the PLC meetings will focus on specialists creating their own page for the wiki & uploading or copying & pasting their lesson plans onto their wiki page.

Ms. Farthing asked Ms. Muzzy to make a backdrop for the upcoming We Has Jazz production. Ms. McKenzie & Ms. Farthing will work together to create a flier for the program.

Reminder: bring Ms. Muzzy $1 for BUG/Terrific Kids treats.

A comprehensive needs book is supposed to be developed by March 7 (can someone elaborate on this in a comment please? I cannot remember what this was about. - MM)

Also, there was some discussion professional development needs for schools, for us in particular – stuff that will help us for tutoring; write this down in narrative form during next PLC; idea: more training for teachers on SmartTutor. Include how much time we might need for PD (ongoing, blocks of time). Think about teacher evals.

We discussed needs for reading credit (CEU's) & Juliet Brown is going to set up some trainings during PLC’s in March. Ms. Morning is going to work with Ms. Henderson to set up the SIOP trainings in the staff development registration website.

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Tentative schedule for upcoming meetings:

2/22: Discuss & write up ideas for staff development
3/2: Wiki & blog work session
3/9: Juliet Brown will come for training*
3/16: Juliet Brown will return for training*

*We will look at the balanced literacy framework and talk about questioning strategies when reading to or with students.