Schedule of PD Time for October 2, 2013 12:30-1:45 Curriculum work in discipline teams (see table, below) 1:45-2:00 Coffee

and snacks in MPR 2:00-2:15 Teacher/TA meeting in MPR 2:15-3:15 Teacher evaluation meeting in MPR (Teachers should look at feedback form - http://tinyurl.com/lsteval1 as preparation. TAs to meet with Donavon 3:15-4:30 Whole School Initiative committees (see table, below) Please plan and document your meetings in the table below.

It will be helpful to bring laptops so we can look at docs together.)

Time
Disciplinary Curriculum team meetings
12:30-1:45

Group
Science

Focus
Discussing and composing philosophy statement after looking at samples

Stuff to Bring/Prep
Samples of statements you agree with, in whole or part

Location
Peters room

Participants What was accomplished and next steps

Peter, Heather, Emily, Brad, Ria A good draft of a philosophy statement was created as a Google doc. Participants will do some editing on the document to get close to a final draft by next meeting (Oct. 30). Folks have taken an initial look at sample standards and shared them (NGSS, Aussie standards, AERO, etc.) We should continue to look through these to see where they align well (or not) with the points we have agreed to for our philosophy statement.

Visual and Performing Arts

David Tomasini Robert Passig Bhagawati Chettri Kathy Shrestha Standards review and selection. Discussion: adoption/ adaptatio n process strands standards notes, questions, recommendations Renees room Rene Comesotti Patrick McAndrew Paulita Rodriguez Deborah Somerville Douglas von Hollen Luke Davis The LA committee resolved: Adopt the AERO standards for LA as the basis for the LA curriculum To use the NCTE standards for language arts as a source to revise and amend the LA curriculum in areas where there are perceived shortcomings in the AERO standards. (for example AERO fails to adequately address the role of multilingual and multi-cultural students in the LA classroom or clearly address the role of assessment in the LA classroom) There is also a need to address the needs of an international community with our curriculum. For our next meeting members will have reviewed the AERO and NCTE standards, and be prepared to begin revising/developing a draft of standards for LA at LSN as a hybrid of the two sets of standards. We, will need several hours to complete the next stage of this process, possibly requiring some release time, or a more substantial block of time during the next early release day.

ELA

Renee: provide hard copies of AERO and NCTE Social Studies Molly Nielsen Adam Smee Lexie Pieters Bhagawati Chettri Douglas von Hollen Jeremiah OSullivan Deborah Somerville Luke Davis Getting into Atlas and recording what is happening will be very helpful A hope of some Atlas training for others is a general feeling and then time to do the entries.

Math

Holli Niesner Chris Ray Brian Fawcett Emily Coolidge Heather Farish

Chris to ask Rustam about adding elementary section to curriculum website and change title to "Mathematics" from "Secondary Math" -- by Oct 2. Brian to create document of paragraph summaries of ES math curriculum -- by Nov 6. Holli, Brian, Chris to clean up site to find 'essential documents' in the right places. Old drafts of implementation plans, etc. can be stored in a "Previous Documents" folder. -- by Nov. 6. Holli, Brian, Chris to discuss authentic task assessment for HS and MS math in November-December... and then compare evaluation techniques. -- come to Nov 6 PD meeting with task ideas. Chris to ask Rustam about availability of Geometer's SketchPad (laptops, computer lab?) -- Oct. 23 PD.

World Languages (Also from 3:15-4:00)

Continue to work on Philosophy Statements.

Draft of vision and philosophy for teaching & learning in World Language

Maryline's room

Maryline Pimentel Monica Justice Karine Emriau Fabiola von Hollen

Reviewed and agreed on the final version of our "Vision and Philosophy for Teaching & Learning in World Languages" . We decided to use AERO World Language Standards. We also defined the sequence for the following programs: Program 1: Grades 3-5 Program 2: Grades 6-8 Program 3: Grades 9-12 These three levels are linked to the AERO Benchmarks. Next Steps: 1. Document the materials we need for each program and each language 2. Draft all courses in google site: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/lsnepal.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AjvM SOb6OdDudFhsU01wZVFGQV93Z1RsRF8yRlhqLWc&hl=en Vision and Philosophy statement drafted Next time: Review standards and look at creating some grade level benchmarks

PE

Continue to work on Philosophy & Beliefs Statements. Review resources. Policies and procedures Handbook Philosophy and Policy statement drafts

PE documents

Lukes office

Sam, Kathy, Mark, Luke

Student Support

Sarahs room

Allison, Jacob, Sarah, Linda

Updates and additions to Student Support Manual

Whole School Initiative

Assessment

Look at and contribute to Google doc draft: http://tinyurl.com/lsassess5

Sarahs room

Peter, Brian, Allison, Renee, Sarah, Sam, Paulita, Lexie,

The Assessment for Learning Policy draft was read through and polished with final edits (wordsmithing) to come for next meeting. A Grading and HW Policy were outlined on the Google doc with much work to do. A working group got together to plan out a HW Workshop for the next

team meetings
3:15-4:30

Chip, Brad, Linda

Teacher-led Learning day (Oct. 23). They created an outline and plan of action for the WS and will use next WSI time (Oct. 9) to complete the planning. Another WS theme was proposed: Assessment for Learning. Brian has a WS leaders book on this to guide us and we can strike a working group to plan and present the WS at the next meeting. Vision statement checked and now final. Belief statements were completed and will be reviewed next session. A definition of service learning was included. Referred to standards from NYLC, which are to read before the next meeting and we will look at how they fit in with our vision and belief statements.

Service

Continue to work on Philosophy & Beliefs Statements. Review resources.

Reflect on philosophy & beliefs from last meeting. Bring documents to review and discuss with the aim to develop standards next meeting. Before meeting look through documents from UWC/Mike Johnston that Deborah sent the link out to. Adam will bring resources sent to him so you only need to come ready to collaborate!

Heathers room

Heather, Luke, Deborah, Robert, Nicole, Kathy, Patrick

ProjectBased Learning

Is there an action plan for introducing culminating projects into grade 8 and 5? (We have senior project and are introducing Grade 10 project) Ongoing and connecting PBL outside of these big culminating ones. Vision statement?

Adams room

Adam, David, Holli, Mark, Jeremiah, Douglas, Emily. Molly, Chris, Bhagawati

The description of the goal of PBL is quite similar to the IB Primary years Program Exhibition in grade 5. Looking at this and the grade 8 project may be helpful. These have been in development for 20 years.