2012-2013+Meetings

Meeting Agendas/Minutes

April 25, 2013
 * Follow-up to April 19 LATE START
 * Elementary cleaned up the essentials and the elementary was challenged to try one of the proficiency scales. Discussion on how we continue on and helping to make staff accountable to try one of the proficiency scales. Mr. DeWaard suggested we encourage the staff to use engagement activities in our classroom as the year closes and to have discussions with their principal concerning the proficiency scales. Discussion that the steering committee needs to be positive in their communication to other staff as to what each of us can do in our classroom to help students, and the inservice we get from our late start days.
 * Planning for 13-14 PD Days
 * Mr. Bargen is bringing breakfast for every steering committee meeting next year. (Remember, Ms. Hottovy cannot have eggs.)
 * Melissa Trautman is scheduled for Aug. 13. Suggestions for late start dates: Discussion that elementary continue to look at math data and RTI on late start dates. Secondary also needs time to look at data on the late start dates; also what kind of data we need to be collecting. Intervention time for middle school math students that are struggling. Time for Marzano teams to reconnect.
 * Planning for 13-14 School Improvement Visit

April 4, 2013
 * April 19 - 2-hour late start inservice
 * Inventory where each teacher is at and make future plans (send out survey or google doc in advance)
 * MRL for next year
 * Tim discussed having another Marzano group - he will get us signed up
 * Late Starts next year
 * Talked about how we will have one each month and some of those will be used for data
 * Making plan to bring Melissa Trautman back to speak to staff about autism
 * Safety
 * Kristin discussed the Mock Shooter Drill and the need for us to update our plans.
 * We discussed the need to sit down with the police and rescue squad members that were involved.
 * Discussed sending a team to Crisis Team Training. We sent a team last fall to level 1 & 2 training.
 * Talked about Tornado Drill locations. Is the office area an appropriate space to use. Discussed making a 1 year adjustment to our locations and then re-evaluating after the new addition is finished.

March 7, 2013
 * How do we move forward with our Essential Learnings/Proficiency Scales? How do we get them into a common language & how do we publicize them so that they are accessible? Should it look different at the elementary level compared to the secondary level?
 * Discussed how the website could be a vehicle to communicate the Essential Learnings with parents.
 * Also discussed posting them in each classroom.
 * Discussed including them in the Course Description Manual at the secondary level and talked about creating a similar document at the elementary end.
 * Discussed the possibility each teacher having their own website with their Essential Learnings being a part of their page.
 * Late starts next year
 * Discussed designating each late start for specific data review and/or professional development.
 * Instructional Rounds in March
 * Will try to open it up to any teachers that are interested. We will discuss it at the beginning of our inservice day on Monday & have a sign-up sheet available. Once we know how many teachers would like to be involved, we will organize groups & subs in order to do rounds prior to Easter break & the NeSA window opening.
 * Discussed surveys & that next year will be our external visit. Amy Hottovy was unanimously selected to put together our profile for the 2014 visit.

January 17, 2013
 * Data Review (How did this go? ask teachers to speak to this)
 * Math, Science, Reading, Writing met to look at NeSA & SAT 10 data
 * Megan created a survey to get some feedback from those involved in this new data review format
 * Mark liked the format and sees it being more beneficial as we get more years of NeSA-S data. He liked being able look at each individual student and being able make changes to instruction to meet kids' needs.
 * Kristin & Amy thought that the day was beneficial, noted that there were some issues with the writing. Amy thinks our 7-12 staff needs more time for data analysis and collaboration...need to get away from making hunches about kids & utilize the data that we have.
 * Marzano Work (thoughts after Jan 4 day -- planning for Feb 15 & March 11)
 * April 8 & 9, 2013 is next MRL 2 meetings in Fremont.
 * Professional Development Schedule for 2013-2014 (how are late starts working? survey for all staff--what questions to ask)
 * Mark & Amy both like the late start format. Wonder if we could use some of this time in the future for secondary data & elementary math data meetings. Talked about the possibility of adding some additional late starts in future school years. Tim suggested that we plan to do a late start every month next year...just run with it.
 * Jeff talked about needing a clearer vision of how everything is connected that we are currently working on. Dr. H. illustrated a visual that connects the big picture

November 29, 2012
 * Data Analysis Plan
 * Professional Development Plan
 * District Wide Marzano Implementation
 * Essential Learnings (plan for Friday, Jan. 4)
 * Proficiency Scales