05/09/2013

Good morning. Our goals today are:

1. This Is Water - a short video from David Wallace Ferguson about intentional thought. May be something you want to share. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmpYnxlEh0c
2. Department Concerns to be addressed.
3. Talk culminating projects as a tool for keeping wayfarers engaged.
4. Share the staff development for early release:

May 10, 2013

 

Early Release Professional Development

 

 

·        STAAR Quality Resources

o   Core teachers will view training resources (videos) as a content team.  These resources were donated by Deborah Louis as part of the Mayor’s Grow South Initiative.

 

online.educationalrevision.org

 

username is DISD email address

password is starQuality

·        Region 10 Professional development for Social Studies

o  Region 10 Consultant will share strategies for increasing student engagement and making instruction student led versus teacher led. 

·        MRS for Electives

o   Elective teachers will discuss effective implementation of MRS in their classroom, then demonstrate/model an MRS using teachers as students.

 

·        ALL teachers will complete the School Climate Survey before they leave for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Systematic Coaching Rubric

Central office evaluation rubric for an Effective School

Science Professional Learning Community 5/2/2013

To address the Implementation aspect of our Systemactic Coaching Rubric for Achieving the Sixth Archetype: Characteristic of an Effective School we will talk about differentiated instruction in the classroom.



We will:

1. share our successes for the last few weeks.
2. watch a short video about Differentiation in the classroom.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2VXbb-hxoo)
3. hopefully watch a demonstration of that technique in action (filming today).
4. talk about challenges, look at resources, and share ways we can use this in our classrooms. (http://legacy.mckinneyisd.net/departments/curriculum/MISD/Secondary/Documents/How%20to%20Differentiate%20Instruction.doc)

Mr. Parisi would you please keep the minutes of our meeting. Perhaps we should do this as a blog to conserve, and create a dialogue. Minutes can be posted as comments.