PBIS/Classroom Management Team Minutes 1/23/13

January 23, 2013

PBIS/Classroom Management Team Agenda Items

·        Revise Common Area Behavior Matrices

o    Email out each matrix to rest of team. Same process as with Classroom. Date: Next Meeting Date—Feb. 1   Paul

·        Pick Group Study Material: ordered Alita
Review PBIS Data: Need to talk to Sue Van De Voort to gain access.  Debbie

·        Choose Date for Student Climate Survey and Plan Procedure:

§  Send out Survey to new members Paul

§  Done in Advisory Time

§  Feb 25^th, 26^th Confer with 11^th grade Advisors about doing Survey on SAT sign up date. March 4^th---   Seniors 25^th or 4^th Michael

§  Leadership needs to OK schedule for Feb 20^th  and 21^st

§  Test Survey---Michael

·        Permanent Posters in Progress

o   Values ½ poster size—25 in. wide X  ? Michael can do this in house.

o   Classroom Behavior Poster—in progress. Target Date: Friday, Feb. 1^st

·        Plan Awards Assembly:

o   Reviewed Assembly Agenda: Stagger Honor Role Call Outs to Improve Student Engagement

o   Listed next steps: Paul and Debbie

·        Email staff follow up and questions----send draft to team Paul

o   Did you do re-teach AAA values in Advisory?

o   Did you use one of the provided lesson plans?

o   Did you use your own?

o   Do you need any further help from the PBIS Team

o   Did you do follow up activities in all your classes?

o   If yes, please share what you did:

·        Email Follow Up for awards----name and reason--Paul

Next Agenda:

o   Review our Book and prioritize sections and set due dates

o   Review PBIS data if possible

o   Discuss Climate Survey and Set Up Computer Lab Schedule

o   Poster Progress

o   Reflection on Awards Assembly

o   Review teacher comments on AAA Values reintroduction

Sound Grading Practices Minutes for 1/23/13

1. Review and share standards, unit targets and learning targets for the first unit of next semester.

·         Teachers worked in pairs to compare different standards and targets that we wrote for our first unit for the semester.

·         Each teacher shared their standards for the first unit of the semester.

2. We brainstormed as a group a possible way to track students’ progress for both the students and teachers’ to use. (See below)

·         The teachers agreed that we will pilot an organizer for students and teachers to track students understanding, but it doesn’t have to necessarily be this one.

·         AT the next meeting, decide which organizer you’re going to use and try to use it once.

Assignment

Cite strong and thorough text evidence

Write a conclusion based on evidence.

Create a data table, collect data, and analyze data.

S 4 ….

S 4 ….

Draw inference

Write paragraph

Paraphrase

Assignment #1

X

x

Next Agenda:

1.       Review our use of the graphic organizer.

2.       Investigate how EGP can be used efficiently.

3.       Update on 15 Fixes book order.

Arts Integration Minutes - January 9

Meeting 1/9

Attending: Dahms, Bishop, Stultz, Soto, Schmidt, Gregory, Regan and Craig (SAM team), Stefan Nelson (district Arts Coordinator)

Focus of meeting was to look at samples of Arts Integration across the country and choose a model that best suits us.

Norms

• Speak your truth with kindness and compassion
• Share Air Time
• Speak from your Perspective

Activities – done to demonstrate what arts integration could look like

• Line Activity – demonstrating emotions through writing Lines
• Pattern Activity – demonstrating historical and social patterns through Art

Discussion Question:  What does Arts Integration look like now in our school?

• Scattered
• Superficial
• Add on
• Used to increase motivation
• Inconsistent
• Teachers have a high interest but don’t always have the ideas of how to do it
• Not collaborative, done more individually
• Needs support at administrative level for planning and reflection
• It would be cool to have a unifying theme that every discipline connects to throughout the year

Defining Arts Integration – We looked at 5 definitions of Arts Integration and gave feedback:

• Integration should influence student achievement/success in our tests performance and demonstration of skills/knowledge
• It should be part of the way we market our school in explaining how arts integration prepares our students for college, career and citizenship.
• Integration should not just use the arts to support academics but vice versa 

We did not reach a consensus on a definition – Regan and Craig took down our ideas and will bring a definition which we can wordsmith to the next meeting.

Other Concerns

• We want the process to include a tangible lesson/plan to put into practice
• We want a tool box
• We want to make sure whatever we try is right for our kids
• We want to bring student work in and figure out how arts integration would help the student

 Agenda for next time: To be set by SAM team.

Standards Based Grading Minutes January 9

Standards Grading Focus Group Minutes 1/9/13

In attendance: Aria, Carla, Marie, Ina, Tom

1. Check in about learning targets for end of 1^st semester
1. What have you changed?

                                                               i.      Changing “Objective” into “Learning Target”

                                                             ii.      Writing the date, learning targets on same page

                                                            iii.      Simplifying learning targets into “I Can”

                                                           iv.      Making the learning targets personal to the students

2. How are you assessing your targets?

                                                               i.      Used exit tickets

                                                             ii.      Thumbs of Understanding

                                                            iii.      Progress towards targets using %

                                                           iv.      Warmups

3. What is working, what isn’t?

                                                               i.      Doing day to day formative is helpful, but not enough data for summative.

2. Clarify vocabulary we use in our classes. We should all be using the same language around standards with our students.
1. How are we communicating learning targets/objectives/goals?

                                                               i.      We want to use the phrase “Learning Target” which are the steps needed in order to reach the main standard.

                                                             ii.      From broadest to specific: Standards, Unit Targets, Learning Targets (use “I can” and has to be action oriented)

2. How are we communicating formative vs. summative assessments?

                                                               i.      Coming back to this in future meeting. Has to do with choosing a graphic organizer.

3. Decide on a graphic organizer to use in order to track student data and progress.
1. Our first goal is: We will create student friendly learning targets and both formative and summative assessments for the beginning unit(s) of second semester.  This includes finding/creating a graphic organizer to use as teachers and students as a means of tracking student data, progress and learning.
2. We like page 6, 7 in Sound Grading Practices binder for students to use.
3. We like page 9 as a way to keep a class scoresheet.
4. Choose your own that you like.

4. Make a plan for reading and discussing 15 fixes.
1. Didn’t get to this. Go on next agenda

5. Create agenda for next meeting 1/23/13.
1. Review and share standards, unit targets and learning targets for the first unit of next semester.
2. We will each choose an organizer to give to students so they can track their own progress and also choose one for us to track class-wide scores.

                                                               i.      Action: Marie will copy the pages we like and put in our mailboxes so we can modify them to our own liking.

3. Create a reading/discussion schedule for 15 Fixes book.

PBIS/Classroom Management Minutes Jan 9

Hello everyone,

Please click on the link below to see our meeting minutes and future items on the agenda:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VoJwFUd1IOXWb-q-aVzEmpENaFgoQ2zhQV-68Qu2Ypc/pub

We welcome any questions or comments.

Thanks,

The PBIS/Classroom Management Team