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

PLC-8.23.12

Grade Level Agenda
Thursday August 23, 2012

Please Bring: any resources you’d like to share for curriculum night, something for note taking!
Agenda:
​Reminders- green writing folders, headphones, sub folders and pr’s
​Random tidbits- Friday notes (happy notes to Stacy!), Scholastic news and no $ L,
​Upcoming events-
​​Tomorrow- Taco Mac outing!
​​Tuesday Aug 28th- curriculum night
​​Wednesday Aug 29th- tech training
• Do we want to reschedule PLC???
Planning- (look at curriculum map!)
​Reading- novel not in! Harcourt Story?
​Language Arts- Nouns/Subjects
​Math- mental math, adding 2 and 3 digit numbers
​Social Studies- Paul Revere