Attending: Morning-Cain, Henderson, Crim, Phillips, Burkhead, Muzzy, Farthing, McKenzie, Land (arrived late)
We discussed our schedule. 3rd grade specials were moved back to 10:50 – 11:30 because of conflicts with their lunch schedule. 1st grade specials will dismiss at 2:40. We need to have 4th grade lined up at 10:30 though teachers may arrive at 10:35 on PLC days.
For duty-free lunch: classroom teachers will drop the students off in the cafeteria; they may have to wait in the cafeteria for us to finish our 3rd grade classes.
We will keep the same mission statement and norms as last year.
We reviewed the purpose of PLC's: 1) collaboration and 2) data evaluation
Specialists will have to have a way to collect and show data that demonstrates learning this year. Like classroom teachers, we will have a data center, but we can make it our own; we don't have to call it a data center. We need to analyze our student work and display it. We need to start gathering evidence that our students are learning. We reviewed examples of data centers. We can start off by picking a particular grade level and then expand to collect data on more grades. Data centers can be maintained by specialists instead of the students and can be updated quarterly. Data can be taken by a checklist or by some other method we determine. We can use something like the CFA Data Analysis Form that's behind the purple tab in our PLC notebook, or we can determine our own. Ms. Crim does not need to worry about this. For the rest of us, data centers need to be up by the first week of October.
After the holiday break, we will elect a new PLC chair, a new reporter, and a new timekeeper.
Behind the purple tab in our PLC notebook, on the last page, there is an article called “Trust” – we need to review it for next week and identify the 4 indicators (Respect, competence, personal regard, integrity) look like in our PLC & in the school as a whole.
When planning our lesson, we continue to be focused on these questions:
We are still focused on 4 questions when planning:
What do we want our students to know, understand & be able to do?
How will we know they have learned it?
How will we respond when they have not learned or when they have learned?
Teachers may include the utilization of specialists when doing action planning (for difficult areas of instruction/differentiating instruction. We will need to collaborate with classroom teachers to develop activities for such plans.
We will not have to schedule an additional meeting besides PLC's due to scheduling difficulties , but we will always meet on Tuesdays.
We need to identify 10 – 12 Essential Objectives/Topics (combined of all grade levels) for this semester & email this to Ms. Morning-Cain before the first week of October. List objective numbers & summary of each objective.
We need to each establish a classroom mission statement which will apply to grades K-5. The school's mission statement needs to be posted in our room. We need to have a feedback tool (plus delta's issue bin/parking lot).
We discussed Race to the Top. We (specialists) are going to have to get in the mindset that we will have accountability assessments for our classes. The state is going to develop the form of accountability.
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If there are errors or omissions in these minutes, please leave a comment or email Ms. McKenzie so she can correct them.
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