PD SCHEDULE

Wednesday 1.16.08
& Friday 1.18.08
“We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will
finish the job.”- Winston Churchill

Schedule Upcoming Professional Participation &

WED 1.16
3:35-4:35 Grade Team Meetings Performance Points (P3Points)
FRI 1.18 1pt – 1.16 Grade Team Meeting + minutes & atten.
12:25-1:20 Lunch
1:20-3:00 Online survey (on your own) & grading time
1pt – 1.18 Most of this time will be for you to grade
3:00-3:35 Specials Presentation + Regents Update RM 201 but at 3:00pm we will have a half hour meeting on
Regents issues & specials presentation.
Deliverables 2pt – 1.18 Online Survey #2: Leadership Teams
• Grade team meetings & attendance.
• Online Survey #2
15pt – REGENTS WEEK Deliverables
• Regents week deliverables

WEDNESDAY: Grade Team Meeting #9 Agenda 3:35-4:35 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes
FOLLOW WINSTON’S ADVICE (see quote) AND GIVE KIDS SOME TOOLS TO FINISH THE JOB!!!! In order to find ways for students to
succeed please bring preliminary grade print out sheets for each student in your classes. Use this GTMtg time to make parent calls
and intervention plans for students “on the hump” so they can make up work to raise their semester grade.
ROOM 201 (Ricky) 12th Grade ROOM 306 (Nic & Annie) 9th Grade
ROOM 209 (Kyle) 11th Grade ROOM 310 (Hunter) 10th Grade

FRIDAY A: Grade Team Meeting #8 Agenda 1:20-2:55 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes
You may use this time to:
1. Grade
2. Do your online survey about leadership teams
3. Organize around your regents week deliverables

FRIDAY B: Full Staff Mini-Meeting: Specials Presentation + Regents Update 3:00-3:35

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 35 minutes

RM 201
Specials are presenting on their work this term and Regents week updates will be made.

Reminders & Announcements

URGENT!!!!
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE TURNED IN YOUR WORKSHOP
CHOICES FOR THE SMALL SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE TO MARGARITA
BY THE END OF YOUR G.T. MEETING TODAY!
Extra sign up forms & program choices attached!
 Reminders & Announcements cont.
Reminders & Announcements cont. on next page

•THANK YOU PEDRO NOGUERA and all the attendees at the first BK SIGNATURE SPEAKER SERIES last Friday especially AMANDA
HUNTER and MARGARITA BRICE and others who helped set up and clean up the room.

• BASKETBALL FUN: 1.17.08 Banana Kelly HS vs. Fannie Lou 4:30 PM at Fannie Lou – GAME ON – GO WOLVERINES!!!

• CONGRATS to all the GRADE TEAMS on their presentations last Friday. Each team put time and effort into making their
deliverables a reality this semester and started off our team presentations on a positive and powerful note!

• ORDERING MATERIALS? Maggie will be available AFTER Regents week to process larger FAMIS orders for second semester.
Purchase request forms are orange and on file in 206 but extra copies are attached to this agenda. Maggie would like all major
orders turned in by FEB 15, 2008!!

• HEADS UP: Upon the completion of PD Evolution #3 (first semester) we will be going into a two-week redesign period after
Regents. Second semester dates and cohort assignments etc. will not me published until we have a series of roundtable
discussions with the whole staff to gather input on the design of Evolution #4. Prior to these roundtables (Jan 11) all staff will fill
out a survey about Evolution #3 to gather data.

•HEADS UP! Many visitors will continue to come by BK in the upcoming months for various reasons. Sometimes, due to the nature
of these visitors’ schedules we can’t always give the kind of advance notice some might like. To those ends it is important to
remember your classroom is a public space and you should always be putting your best pedagogical foot forward every day
with or without an outside observer. COMING SOON: a visit from the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators President
Ernie Logan. Date and time TBA.

• WANTED: Staff (does not have to be a teachers) sponsor to take over the Building with Books Program. BWB is non-profit
program involved in community service work domestically and internationally. OT pay will be made available for BWB events that
take place outside of the school day. If interested see Andi Brown for more information and then Josh.

• JANUARY 29, 2008: The Bronx Small Schools Collaborative PD. This Event occurs during second semester so it is not on your
present calendar. Three sets of BK staff will be presenting that day. All pedagogical staff are required to attend the event.