PLC 11.27.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

What to bring: curriculum binder with reading/math standards, ideas for math activities, resources for social studies

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

Unit/Lesson PLanning –

·         Pacing- curriculum map

Remember to use the STATE unit instead of the county (use this for a resource only)

·         Review/Unpack standards- MATH units...looking at difference between state and county units J filling in data…

·         Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback- geometry and historical figures

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING:  check out ipad cart and share ideas

 

PLC-Nov. 13, 2012

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

What to bring: Curriculum binder, calendar

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

Lesson Planning

·         Technology Integration- Meghan Hurley (share resources from training!)

 http://todaysmeet.com/
http://edmodo.com
 

Unit Planning-

·         Curriculum map update

·         Math unit outline

·         SEM regions- see Bethany's email schedule

Nov. 19/20	Unit 4 Pretest
Nov. 26	MCC3.G.1 1.       Draw and classify 2.       Quadrilaterals 3.       Similarities and differences	Quiz Friday on topics for the week.
Dec. 3-7	MCC3.G.1        Triangles and angles	Quiz Friday on topics for the week.
Dec. 10-14	MCC3.G.2 ·         Fraction is part of a whole ·         Fraction is a quantity formed when a whole is partitioned into equal shares.	Quiz Friday on topics for the week.
Dec. 17-19	Test Dec. 18?	Review these few days for summative assessment.

Protocol –

·         Text based protocol-reading and ELA standards http://www.schoolreforminitiative.org/download/2%20Protocols/7%20Focus%20on%20Texts/making_meaning.pdf

(See Curriculum Map-grouped by 9 weeks)

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING: Look at data from Math Unit assessment

Grade Level Notes - 11.1.12

Upcoming:

Monday:

Tuesday:  Teacher workday/voting

Wednesday:
SEM

Thursday:
L'Homm - 1 chaperone and 21 kids
Welch - 1 chaperone and Emily, 21 kids

Friday:
Brock/Laney - 21 kids and 1 chaperone
Resudek/Weikel - 23 kids and 1 chaperone
Corson - 22 kids and 1 chaperone
Scales - 21 kids and 2 chaperones

15 minute lunch-get on bus by 12:30pm
Cooler - will email Susan
Meds- will email clinic staff

PLC 10.30.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

What to bring: science unit materials, curriculum binder, calendar
Attending:  Scales, Corson, Welch, Resudek, White, Hurley, Laney, L'Homm
Not Attending:  Brock (TAG meeting)

Review Norms:

Be Respectful
Be punctual and prepared
Assume goodwill and be positive
Be fully present
Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

Unit/Lesson Planning –

Pacing- review curriculum map/update
Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback
Writing Assessments – CFAs- rocks and minerals

 

SEM- Regions of GA
Region Assignments:
Hurley-Swamp
Welch/White-ocean
Brock-Mountains
L'Homm-Lower Coastal Plain
Corson-Upper Coastal
Resudek-Marshes
Scales-Piedmont

Rotations:
Nov. 14 - teach your own class
Nov. 28:   2 class rotations
Dec. 5:  2 class rotations
Dec. 12:  Culminating project
Teachers will be the tour guides and will take their classes around to each habitat.
10:30-11:15pm
2nd grade/other visitors can come from 1:00-2:00pm

 

Math planning- depth of knowledge/rigor, resources

Sites to Look at:
Math Live - http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/Math5.html
Thinking Blocks:  http://www.thinkingblocks.com
Harcourt e-lab:  http://harcourtschool.com/activity/elab2004/gr3/index_2004.html
Cursive with animations:  http://donnayoung.org/penmanship/cursive-animations.htm
Rocks/Minerals:  http://mineralogy4kids.com
Rocks/Minerals:  http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/rockssoils.html
Rocks/Minerals:  http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/v1Z7aJLuVYOD/3rd-Grade-Rocks-and-Minerals#2

Reminders:
Mock Election:
We are really excited about the mock election on Friday!  You should have recieved a plastic bag which has voter registration cards for each of your students.  Please hand these out before you come to vote becaue we will only "allow" students with valid cards to vote.

Just in case you forgot, here is the voting schedule:

9:20-9:40 Brock

9:45-10:05 Hurley

10:10-10:30 Corson

10:35-10:55 L’Hommedieu

12:55-1:15 Scales

1:20-1:40 Welch

1:45-2:05 Resudek

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING

 

Grade Level

Narrative writing scores due tomorrow. Put your scores into the form on the t drive.  Ask a neighbor to help you if you can't find it.
Science lab will be starting so check the schedule for your time.
Report cards go home today.

Discuss:
Study guide-create study guides with vocab and essential questions, what kids should know.

No worksheet Wednesday:

Soil lesson from the city of Roswell-Nov. 19 (30 kids at a time)

Geologist-will be here for one day. Emily will make a schedule.  More info coming.

Owl guy-

Academics for the Week of 10/29:

PLC 10.16.12

MountainPark Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda
Attending:  Weikel, Scales, Resudek, Welch, White, Corson, L'Hommedieu, Laney, Brock, Hurley

Whatto bring: copies(9) of a child’s writing to practice grading with a rubric

ReviewNorms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill andbe positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

Looking atData –(checkpoints)

·        Protocols– ATLAS protocol

·        http://schoolreforminitiative.org/doc/atlas_looking_data.pdf

·        Planfor remediation and enrichment

Stacy - When could we reevaluate math placements?
We think we need to adjust some students.

 

 

Looking atStudent Work(Narrative Writings for Writing assessment)

·        Scoringwriting together with rubric to calibrate scoring

Writing lists for you to enter your writing on the T drive.
Due next Friday Oct. 26th to Rashidah.

 

Unit/LessonPLanning – lookat curriculum map

·        Pacing

·        Depthof Knowledge (DOK)/Rigor

·        Resources

 

Reminders:
Next Week Schedule -
10:30-11:15 Math
Review in the afternoon for ITBS

 

**ACTIONITEMS – NEXT MEETING

Planning common assessment for Rocks and Minerals.

PLC 10.9.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

What to bring: math unit 3, Thurgood and LBJ activities/lessons/ideas

Attending:  Corson, White, Welch, Resudek, Laney, Hurley, L’Hommedieu

Not attending:  Scales, Brock

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

Scheduling: ITBS schedule (math in the afternoon?)

Unit/Lesson Planning – Math unit 3

·         Review/Unpack standards

·         Backward design – what do we want students to know, understand and be able to do?

& how do we get there?

·         Pacing

Date	Standard	Assessments?
Oct. 16 (4 day week)	MCC3.OA.5 (properties) MCC3.OA.6 (unknown factor) MCC3.OA.9 (patterns on the + and x patterns—spiral)	Common formative assessment
Oct. 22	MCC3.OA.7 (facts/two 1 digit numbers—spiral) MCC4.NBT.5 (Advanced only-one digit x up to 4 digits/2x2 digits)	(ITBS)
Oct. 29	MCC3.OA.8 (2 step word problems/4 operations)	Common formative assessment
Nov. 5	MCC4.OA.2 (Advanced only-x or divide to solve word problems) On level math classes catch up/review.
Nov. 12	Unit Review	Summative Assessment

Unit/Lesson Planning- Social Studies- Thurgood over the next 4 days

·         Resources

·         Pacing

 Check the T drive for the updated curriculum map! :)

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING : pacing for rocks and minerals unit, reading skills, writing-persuasive?

Reminder-Nov. 8/9 Tellus

PLC 10.2.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK THE T: DRIVE FOR THE UPDATED CURRICULUM CALENDAR!

Attending:  Sarah Resudek, Heather Welch, Linda Weikel, Bethany Corson, Laura Brock, Jennifer L’Hommedieu

Not Attending:  Denise Scales, Meghan Hurley, Emily White

What to bring: performance assessment ideas for social studies, curriculum binder with standards and units, Reading/ELA common core unit

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

*Something positive! J

Unit/Lesson Planning –

·          Pacing- look at curriculum map (look at calendar and discuss upcoming end of 9 weeks for writing and reading)

o   Writing- final narratives (topic- “The Magic of a Moment” )

o   Reading- stories and skills? (look at unit 2)

·         Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback- Our Government unit

·         Looking at teacher work- Performance assessment for social studies standard element b?

·         ELA – unit 2 informational texts (see curriculum map) We will use the readers during our reading groups.  Bethany has materials we can use for these.  The novel for this unit (And then What Happened Paul Revere) is on order for us and will arrive soon.  Look on pg. 1 of 5 on the Core Curriculum unit to see the non-fiction standards (on the right).

·         Math-we looked at Unit 2 post test options.  We added a few questions to meet the additional advanced standards.   We then checked on pacing and decided on common formative assessment for Friday and summative assessment.

 

• SS-We discussed branches of govt. assessment and came up with common performance assessment.

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING:   Math non traditional study guide?

 

 

Grade Level Meeting 9.27.12

Maura Hammond:
We viewed a suicide prevention video.  Fulton County will implement this program at all levels (elementary, middle, high).  Elementary will have  a modified version.
Acknowledge
Care
Tell
http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org

Epipen training:
Everyone must do this.  Please go to the clinic and practice doing the epipen.

Field trip:
Need to choose a new program since the bill/law program is no more.

Teacher Keys:
Please keep a record of your communications (phone calls, notes, website, etc.)

5th grade coming to our classrooms @ 10am on Oct. 2 to discuss mock election.

Curriculum Map check:
SS performance assessment:  We discussed giving a "tree" performance assessment.  Laura will create this for us.

PLC-September 18, 2012

MountainPark Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

TuesdaySep 18^th, 2012

Whatto bring: math unit 1assessment data and math unit 2 pre-assessment data (if collected), calendarand timeline for math unit 1 that we started on Thursday

ReviewNorms

Be Respectful, Be punctualand prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be“pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

Pacing-Look at curriculum map

Reading-Common summative assessment for Winn Dixie?

 Mathunit 2 with Sarah!

·        Review/Unpackstandards

·        Backwarddesign – what do we want students to know, understand and be able to do?

&how do we get there?

·        Pacing

*common formative assessment this Friday?

Looking at Data –

Mathunit 2 pre-assessment

Protocols– Notice & Wonder

 Math unit 1 assessment

Protocols– Notice & Wonder

·        Determineflexible grouping for differentiation?

·        Planfor remediation and enrichment- should we spiral skills back into unit 2?

*Break into math groups forunit 2 planning…

Tellus Museum:

Nov. 8/9 Scales/Corson will go on Thursday

All other classes on Friday

Thank you Meghan!

**ACTIONITEMS – NEXT MEETING:

 Common performance assessment for SS-bring next week.

PLC-September 11, 2012

Review Norms
Be Respectful
Be punctual and prepared
Assume goodwill and be positive
Be fully present
Don't be pollution be a solution

Agenda items:
-What is a PLC?  See handout.  Let's work as a team.
-Study guide reminder.  Let's make our geared more toward "what kids should know" instead of a copy of the test.
-Vocab list reminder:  vocabulary list tests.  Administer and review with children.  These are words used in our units.  Go over the vocabulary and then turn in to the office.
-Math assessment issue:
-Training tomorrow-roots of democracy assessment (pull 2/3 students' test if you want to offer suggestions)


Standards Based Report Card:
April Hardy visited us to speak to us about the SBRC.
Think/Talk about:  What is mastery?  How do you know when a student has mastered a standard?
We will no longer have progress skills checklists.
NE (not evaluated) will be used for areas not graded at a specific time.
See resource handouts for math and ela given out at the meeting:
-mastery rubric
-math reporting statements
-ela reporting statements
-report card example
Send April questions you may have about these report cards.
Action Item:  We need to determine What does mastery look like?  How do you know when a student mastered a standard?  What will we use?

Laura printed a kid friendly standards sheet and put it in your box.  You can put this in  your planning notebook.

-Curriculum map check
Check the curriculum map for updates we made today.
If you need help on a specific area, talk to a teammate to get ideas.
Option for reading:  A River Ran Wild

We discussed the science habitat unit assessment.

Unit/Lesson Planning:
We will meet Thursday during planning to plan for unit 2 math-break apart Unit 2 math and group standards in order to make formative assessments to align with standards based report card.
Math-advanced classes need to give the Unit 2 preassessment THIS WEEK!
Next Tuesday, advanced people will look at data.

PLC - September 4, 2012

Visit from Rubin
We will switch our TAG day from Wednesday to Friday
Visit from Ms. J -
AR- check your class list and teacher log in.
See the email from Ms. J as to how this works.
True Flix (good for grades 3-5)
login :trflix
password:  summer
data base of nonfiction texts for us  to use.
Works on a free trial.

Writing Genres (updated):
We need to keep Response to Literature due to writing assessment.
Narrative due Oct. 19
Persuasive due Dec. 14
Informational Feb. 14
Response to Lit. March 29

Math Assessment:
Break into groups to create/alter suggested assessment that is provided.

We worked on our curriculum pacing chart.
Click here to see:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhm88w0vyko4kgd/Third%20Grade%20Curriculum%20Map%202012-2013.docx 

Visit from Rashidah -
We discussed math assessments
We looked at ELA Correlation Chart and DRA.
We do not need to do DRA on every student.
Ms. J is working on leveled library so we could pull books for our students levels.
RTI - See the "cheat sheet" for referring students.
See T drive folder labeled RTI and look inside for strategies.
We will have RTI training soon.

ACTION ITEM:  THURSDAY DURING SPECIALS WE WILL MEET TO CREATE OUR MATH ASSESSMENT!  BRING A COPY OF UNIT 1 MATH TO REFER TO DURING OUR MEETING.

Curriculum map-8.29.12

Latest update: http://db.tt/kUTvgjEq

PLC-August 29, 2012

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

Thursday August 29, 2012

What to bring: science and math ideas, curriculum calendars, laptops for planning

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

-chart of PLC (from Venables book)

-eat lunch together on Fridays? Yes, we will try to do this.

-Quiet lunch- kids meet in room 111, bring a friend/book- ideas?

-Academic assistance- what do we need help with from special areas teachers?

-vocab list- we need to send a list to Stacy with words AND definitions ASAP (take off too easy words) Laura will email your word list to you and define the words (relating to our curriculum).

-Benchmark writing- change genres? Set 4 dates (see below)

Writing:

Oct. 19- "Narrative" writing needs to be finished.

Dec. 14 - "How To" writing needs to be finished.

Feb. 14 - Informational Persuasive writing needs to be finished.

March 29 - Persuasive Writing (and all the others-if they don't pass the other genres have them redo the others and submit score)

Looking at Data

Plan for remediation and enrichment- Extended Day kids! (be thoughtful about who you send, mainly reading)

Unit/Lesson Planning –

Curriculum map- check on language arts/writing and reading?

ELA-nouns, subjects (simple and complete)

Writing - narrative, writing process

Science- Regions of GA unit

·         Pacing for science (see the curriculum planner page here.......LINK)

·         Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback

·         Technology Integration?

·         Resources?

Math (in leveled groups)

·         Pacing

·         Share ideas/activities

·         Common assessments? (We pulled up the test from the T drive-should our final assessment say "Checkpoints"???) We feel the sample assessment questions are better geared to evaluate unit 1.  Could we use this instead?

·         Technology Integration?

·         Resources?

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING

In 2 weeks- meeting with April Hardy, and on Sep 10^th, 11^th, 12^th Venables will meet with us to do common formative assessments