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