District PLC/Curriculum Committee

December 2009District PLC/Curriculum Committee

November Early Out MeetingsGeneral observationsThe time spent was well worth it to begin to focus vertically and see what other levels had completedLevel teams need time to regroup and move forward with pieces that they want to tweak or change based on work with other grade levelsMost teams have essential learnings identified (some need some tweaking using the guidelines from the September District PLC/Curriculum Meetingsee powerpoint on wiki)

November Early Out Meetings, cont.General ObservationsMost teams have essential learnings matched to standardsMost teams have identified the prior skills/knowledge needed for students to be successfulThe level of specificity is still quite varied in the Content/Skills section (where the team should put all of the stuff that they will teach to get to the big, enduring essential learningTeams have a variety of assessments developed, but continued work on common assessments is a high priorityFacilitation of the teams is still a work in progressthis will be a focus of future conversations for the district team.

Your thoughts?Please respond to the discussion thread of the wiki with questions/comments/concerns related to the work that was done vertically during the November Early Out!

Next StepsStudent Programs will begin to compile all of the drafts into a more unified curriculum guide with a map of the essential learnings from the vertical viewthis will included changes requested after November Early OutTeams MUST get Summer copies of any changes/revisions/new documents that you want to have reflected in the guidePlease send these documents to Summer before you leave for Winter BreakRememberthis is a work in progress!!!Bring essential learning development to a close during the spring semester and move forward focusing on your SMART goals

Next Steps, continuedJanuary 20th Early OutContact Summer to let her know what you need (copies of your curriculum guides/standards/etc.)Begin to develop a new list of data needed by your team to track your SMART goalthis might be data that is stored at Student Programs, in Infinite Campus, in each teachers classrooms.Send Summer the list of data needed, if any (and source of the data) after January 20th Early OutContinue developing your common assessments for second semester

Next Steps, continuedJanuary 20th Early OutBegin developing strategies/ideas as a team for building a systemic pyramid of interventionskeep this list, begin to research strategies, develop a professional development needs list for your teamRemaining PLC Early Outs for 2009-2010February 24thMarch 18thApril 21st

Next Steps, cont.Tentative District PLC/Curriculum meeting times March 24thApril 13th

Feedback???????Let me know if this type of meeting to update you/provide training/etc. is a method you would like to continue (may be done using other formats, such as VoiceThread, etc.)

View Documents and Discussion Threads at:http://summerstephens.wikispaces.com/District+PLC-Curriculum+Committee