PLC Meeting Minutes 10-5-10

Attending: Crim, Burkhead, Farthing, Muzzy, Pate, McKenzie

SIT update:

At the last SIT meeting, we discussed AR assembly & carnival. Assembly is at 2 on Thurs 10/7 this was changed to Fri. 10/8 and Carnival is 6 – 8 on Thurs. 10/28. We will be doing a “snack” cake walk. We have to provide the snack cakes. Mr. Burkhead will provided hula hoops or spots. We will try to have it in the gym. Each of us will buy one box of 12 cakes and that should give us enough for the night.
Ms. Crim is going to dress up for the Assembly on Thursday (each grade level will have a character). She’s not sure yet who she’s going to be. Ms. Pate has written a skit, and Ms. McKillop’s class is going to be performing a song.

Career Day has been cancelled because of having to stay on the Imagine It! Schedule. We will look at scheduling another Career Day NEXT fall.

We are not sure about Field Day – in the SIT meeting minutes it’s recorded as either May 5 or April 29; Ms. Morning is supposed to get some info from Mr. Burkhead’s other school and make a decision about it.

We need to link Harris Teeter VIC cards to our school. See Ms. Ehrens to get info. Also continue to bring in box tops & soup labels, and start collecting Sunny D labels.

Do not prop doors open due to safety concerns.

We will be doing McDonald’s Night. There is some consideration of asking particular grade levels to handle particular months, but this has not been set.

Assessments:

With regards to our increased assessment & data reporting requirement, we decided to do 1 assessment quarterly – it will probably be performance based. We need to find out how we are going to be reporting our data – on a spreadsheet? We will need guidance from the Instructional Coordination Team in how to develop the recording sheet and how they would like for us to report our data.

For the Good of the Order:

Mr. Burkhead has spoken to Ms. Henderson, and she is going to try to schedule SIOP training for us – we need reading credit!

PLC Meeting Minutes 10-4-10

**There was no meeting last week due to SIOP training. We met today instead of tomorrow because of additional SIOP training.

Present at today's meeting: Morning-Cain, Henderson, Krafft, Pate, Muzzy, McKenzie

We shared which grade level's data we will be reporting on for our data center. Mr. Burkhead and Ms. Farthing need to let Ms. Morning know which grades they will be reporting on ASAP.

If you have not turned in your first quarter essentials, you need to do so ASAP.

Ms. Morning recently attended a Title I Mtg & info was shared there that each specialist has to have some kind of growth measurement. We need to give some kind of CFA; we can do 2 CFA’s & 1 EOQ test or JUST a quarterly assessment. Our CFA data analysis would be due at the same time as the other PLC’s. We need to decide this as a PLC – whether to do quarterly or CFA mini-assessments / EOQ test. We will have an extra PLC meeting on Tues., Oct. 5 (just us teachers) at 11:30 to decide what type of CFA we will do and discuss data collection & presentation.

We are going to have training today in the staff meeting on Classroom Assessment. We do not have a previous assessment to bring yet, but when the trainer comes back in Nov. we need to have a CFA or quarter test ready to review. We will be provided with a copy of the book that we are going to be trained on: Classroom Assessment for Student Learning by Richard Stiggens. Some of us will be sharing a copy of the book.

Staff meetings will run til 4:45 – 5:00; be prepared.

We discussed the upcoming AR assembly and carnival. Specialists will be doing a snack cake walk.

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