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District PLC/Curriculum Committee. December 2009. November Early Out Meetings. General observations The time spent was well worth it to begin to focus vertically and see what other levels had completed
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District PLC/Curriculum Committee December 2009
November Early Out Meetings • General observations • The time spent was well worth it to begin to focus vertically and see what other levels had completed • Level teams need time to regroup and move forward with pieces that they want to tweak or change based on work with other grade levels • Most teams have essential learnings identified (some need some tweaking using the guidelines from the September District PLC/Curriculum Meeting—see powerpoint on wiki)
November Early Out Meetings, cont. • General Observations • Most teams have essential learnings matched to standards • Most teams have identified the “prior skills/knowledge” needed for students to be successful • The level of specificity is still quite varied in the Content/Skills section (where the team should put all of the “stuff” that they will teach to get to the big, enduring essential learning • Teams have a variety of assessments developed, but continued work on common assessments is a high priority • Facilitation of the teams is still a work in progress—this will be a focus of future conversations for the district team.
Your thoughts? • Please respond to the discussion thread of the wiki with questions/comments/concerns related to the work that was done vertically during the November Early Out!
Next Steps • Student Programs will begin to compile all of the drafts into a more unified curriculum guide with a “map” of the essential learnings from the vertical view—this will included changes requested after November Early Out • Teams MUST get Summer copies of any changes/revisions/new documents that you want to have reflected in the guide—Please send these documents to Summer before you leave for Winter Break • Remember—this is a work in progress!!! • Bring essential learning development to a close during the spring semester and move forward focusing on your SMART goals
Next Steps, continued… • January 20th Early Out • Contact Summer to let her know what you need (copies of your curriculum guides/standards/etc.) • Begin to develop a new list of data needed by your team to track your SMART goal—this might be data that is stored at Student Programs, in Infinite Campus, in each teacher’s classrooms. • Send Summer the list of data needed, if any (and source of the data) after January 20th Early Out • Continue developing your common assessments for second semester
Next Steps, continued… • January 20th Early Out • Begin developing strategies/ideas as a team for building a systemic pyramid of interventions—keep this list, begin to research strategies, develop a professional development needs list for your team • Remaining PLC Early Outs for 2009-2010 • February 24th • March 18th • April 21st
Next Steps, cont………. • Tentative District PLC/Curriculum meeting times • March 24th • April 13th
Feedback??????? • Let me know if this type of meeting to update you/provide training/etc. is a method you would like to continue (may be done using other formats, such as VoiceThread, etc.) • View Documents and Discussion Threads at: http://summerstephens.wikispaces.com/District+PLC-Curriculum+Committee