PLC Sept. 24 minutes

Minutes for PLC 9-24-15

Attending:
Aletha Abell
Amy Tucker
Joni Masterson
Stephanie Coslow
Lorraine Harris

1. Discussed formative assessments: Joni presented a writing exit slip she had them do to "think forward" about a next setting for a story they were reading.
Lorraine said she uses the dry erase boards frequently to check for understanding.

2. Book Discussion
only covered 2-3 questions - Discussed how we need to be recognizing leadership qualities in our students and ideas to get more adult leaders for programs our students need to practice and develop leadership.

3. Intervention discussion
Mrs. Abell presented to the group that we would be focusing intervention in the classrooms on math during the 3 weeks following fall break. Administration will have pre and post tests ready for us to give to students. We will work on reading the following 3 weeks. Time is needed for teachers to get together and look at data and group students according to the MAP data. Teacher will choose which area they will teach.

Agenda 9-24-15

Agenda

Sept. 24, 2015

1. Formative Assessments- What are you using? What are you learning from your data? How are you using it as you design your daily instruction?
2. Book study- The Leader In Me
3. Map Data - What are we doing with students during WIN in our classrooms?
4. Where are we on PGES reflections/growth plan

9/10/15 Meeting Minutes

In attendance:

Stephanie Coslow
Amy Tucker
Nancy Peden
Lorraine Harris
Joni Masterson
Rachel Brussell
Jessica Scheerhorn

Celebrations:
Tucker and Brussell-Students did a great job on daily 5 today. Brussell was able to work with a group and Mrs. Tucker was helping students at the different centers/stations.

Peden found website cpalms that has resources for units and lesson plans.

Coslow-Goal to use leveled literacy during daily 5 to pull teacher-student group.

Formative Assessments:
-Tucker used exit slip. Noticed students need to add detail to explain their thinking.
-Harris used exit slip. She gathered that students were able to understand 3rd person but not 2nd person.
-Coslow exit slip with notecard. Problem on front and solution on back. Struggling with the biggest problem.
Struggling with higher kids that are getting it. (Suggestions: project, write an example, centers, kid blog).
-Use 50 types of formative assessment strategies we were given to try. Discuss formative assessments that you are using not only at the end of the lesson, but during the lesson.
-Discussion of socrative.com to formatively assess
-Plickers/Clickers
-Formative assessments do not have to be extravagant

Book Review:
Aha moments:
Page 7-
Assumed that kids learn it at home. Not always necessarily true.
Page 9-
Aha moments:
Daughter telling her father to stop being grouchy.
Finding student strength and virtue, and helping them find the niche where they can live these positive traits to the fullest.

Hope-
Student strengths in language.
New staff members and teachers. Very excited and have good energy.
School wide learning and empowering students.
Cognitively vibrant classroom. Teachers facilitate the knowledge.
Committed to kids!!

Regurgitating knowledge. Knowledge is no longer King.
What is king? communication, people skills, creativity, problem solving, etc.

Agenda for PLC Sept. 10

PLC Agenda for Sept. 10

                                    1. Celebrations

                                    2. Formative Assessments- try to bring a different kind each week
                                        Be prepared to share:
                                           What did you learn from your formative assessment?
                                            How did you use the data gained from using your formative assessment?

                                    3. Leader In Me- book study

                                    4. Open House

                                    5. Program Review

September 3rd PLC Minutes

September 3rd PLC Minutes

In attendance: 
Nancy Peden
Jamie Russell
Stephanie Coslow
Amy Tucker
Lorraine Harris
Joni Masterson
Jessica Scheerhorn

Celebrations: 
5th grade reading scores 70% proficient and distinguished according to MAP!

KPREP Data: 
Students have been categorized by scores and grade level.
Teachers went in a made comments next to student names to give current teachers more info.

Lesson Planning Formative Assessments: 
There is a trend in lesson planning throughout FHE:
          *Discussion of targets and "I can" statements.
          *Activities and assessments need to be congruent with learning target.

Differentiation: 
Discussion of differentiation strategies for low and high achieving students.
Given Handout.

Tools for Formative Assessments: 
60 strategies that require minimal teacher prep time.

Sharing formative assessments: 
Peden-Brought exit slip about similie and metaphor. Could quickly see if they got it or not. Reviewed it immediately.

Coslow-Brough exit slip about inferencing. The majority of students missed a question on inferencing because they were focused on the explicit details. Students have difficulty understanding when they made an inference.

Masterson-Grammar Minutes-Take data on that and teach a mini lesson. Working on prepositions, they caught on except for when they were at the beginning of sentences. Reteaching.

Peden-Paired students. One student was a mannequin and the other student had to pose them based on a feeling. Helped with understanding the difference between explicit and inferencing.

Harris-Using a checklist and whiteboard to take data on whole group. Read a slip of paper, students wrote answer down on board, teacher said show down, she could quickly look at boards and take data for reteaching purposes.


Book Study: Read pages 1-11. Next PLC we will discuss.

Number Talks-Team leaders will have the book in the room and we will start with a game plan in the near future.

September 3 PLC

PLC Agenda