Monday, August 15th

Morris K Udall

Elementary School's

Principal’s Day

WELCOME!

Please create a tri-fold name tent with the paper at your

table.

Today’s Agenda• Welcome• Finding What We Have in Common: Corners Activity• Classroom Connections • Explain AVID Essentials: Agenda/Planner, Organizational

Tool, Note-Taking Strategies, Levels of Questioning• Explain the REIL Learning Observation Rubrics Jigsaw and

Discuss• Data Analysis: Article & Share out data in grade level

teams & vertical teams• Primary Lunch 11:00-12:30 p.m. & Intermediate Lunch

12:00-1:30 p.m.• School-wide Discipline Policy & Practice: PASSPORT• Review the Staff Handbook using 2 or 3 column notes

Norms & Housekeeping

• Norms:– We value being intellectually and emotionally engaged

when interacting with our colleagues.– We value respectful listening to and thoughtful

consideration of diverse perspectives.– We value a shared commitment to action and results –

products and/or processes that can be both observed and measured.

• Housekeeping:– Cell Phones– Breaks– Restrooms– Lunch

Finding What We Have in Common

What is your teaching style?• Reflect on the type of shoe on each poster around

the room. Write down which shoe and its attributes with which you align your teaching style.

• Select the poster with the shoe that best represents you as a teacher.

• Take a marker with you and stand by your poster.• In your group, Use the Rally Robin structure to

brainstorm what attributes about your teaching led you to select that poster and how you are like that car. Continue until all ideas are recorded on the poster. Be ready to share out with the rest of the group.

• Remove the paper before you began recording on it.

Classroom Connections

Name of the Activity or Technique

Brief Description

and/or Instructions

Reflection and/or Ideas

     

     

Rally Robin In pairs, students alternate generating oral responses.

Corners Students move to different corners of the room, depending on their point of view.

Note Taking – Two Column Notes

• Left hand column is the place for study questions and main ideas.

• Develop study questions and identify main ideas from specific content in the right-hand column.

• Write study questions/main ideas in the left hand column.

• The place for detailed information.

• Use abbreviations.• Summarize content in your own

words but simplify writing.• Use symbols (arrows, circles,

underlining) or highlighter to indicate important information, ideas/words that are unclear, relationships between ideas/information.

• Include graphics (diagrams & charts) when needed.

• Skip lines between ideas.

Note Taking – Three Column Notes

• Study Questions

• Main Ideas

• Major Topics

• Questions

• Diagrams

• Native Language Clues

• Math Answers

• The place for detailed information.

• Use abbreviations.• Summarize content in

your own words but simplify writing.

• Use symbols (arrows, circles, underlining) or highlighter to indicate important information, ideas/words that are unclear, relationships between ideas/information.

• Include graphics (diagrams & charts) when needed.

• Skip lines between ideas.

Why AVID?

• AVID targets the core of the students in most schools, the “Academic Middle”.

• AVID is based on Best Practice Instructional Strategies.• AVID is research based and proven over time!• AVID is a catalyst for changing the Academic Climate of a

School and School District.

Why AVID?

• AVID changes the way teachers teach.• AVID provides structure to the way students learn.• AVID can be implemented from grades 4 – 12.• AVID uses extrinsic strategies to develop intrinsic

changes.• AVID makes sense.

Goal Setting

•Learning and Behavior

•

AVID Successful Students are…

Provides Students With…

• Success Skills• Organization• Academic Progress• Routines & Rigor O

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SUCCESS SKILLS

• Collaboration• Inquiry• Note Taking• Goal Setting• Organization• Reading• Writing

Agenda

• Student Daily Planner• Monday• Language Arts_ ____________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________• Math_____________________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________• Science___________________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________

• Social Studies______________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________• Other_____________________• _________________________• _________________________• After School_ ______________• _________________________• _________________________• Comments_ _______________• _________________________• _________________________• _________________________

WICOR

• Writing to Learn

• Inquiry (Costa’s Level of Questioning)

• Collaboration

• Organization

• Reading

BINDER CHECK

• Contents:• 3 ring Binder‐• Subject dividers• Pencil pouch• Extra paper• Planner• Organization:• Appropriate supplies• Daily planner completed Accurately• Clearly divided by subjects• Academic Sections:• Class notes• Handouts/worksheets• Class work or assignments

• Rubric:• 3 (Advanced) – All items

completed• 2 (Satisfactory) – Most items

completed (1 2 items missing)‐• 1 (Developing) – Few items

completed (3 or more items missing)

• 0 Absent or all items missing

SLANT

• Sit in the Front

• Lean Forward

• Ask Questions

• Nod your head

• Talk to the teacher

Break!

Goal Setting

•Learning and Behavior

•

AVID Successful Students are…

Rewarding Excellence in Instruction and Leadership (REIL)

• An initiative of the Maricopa County Education Service Agency (MCESA), engages six Maricopa County school districts in implementing systemic change aimed at transforming how schools recruit, retain, support, and compensate effective teachers and principals. The ultimate goal is building the capacity of educators to improve student learning.

• Critical elements of the REIL initiative are:

Rigorous, fair and transparent educator evaluations

        Targeted professional learning

         Tools for measuring student success

         Establishment of multiple career pathways

         Sustainable, differential, performance-based compensation• The five-year initiative, which will culminate in 2014-15, is funded by a $51.5

million Teacher Incentive Fund grant from the U.S Department of Education.

REIL Learning Observation Instrument

• Jigsaw Activity –

– Teacher Observation Rubrics• Read your rubric individually.

• In table groups, each teacher will use a different colored marker to collaboratively create a graphic representation of your rubric on chart paper.

• As more information is provided on your rubric modify your chart.

• Be ready to share out your explanation to the whole group.

• Answer any questions from the group.

Primary (K-4) Lunch

Intermediate - PASSPORT

School-wide Behavior Management Program

Intermediate (5th – 8th) Lunch

Primary - PASSPORT

School-wide Behavior Management Program

Data Analysis

• (30 minutes) Use the Paired Reading Structure to read and discuss the article My Nine ‘Truths’ of Data Analysis.

– ‘A’ reads a section– ‘B’ responds– ‘B’ reads the next section– ‘A’ responds

• (20 minutes) Break up into vertical teams based on the color on the inside of your name tag and share your analysis of the data and the analysis of the article as it pertains to it.

• (10 minutes) Orally discuss using the Paired Reading Sentence Starters at your table.

Break!

Staff Handbook

Policies, Procedures, & Expectations

For

2011-2012 School Year

Thank You!

• Please take the time to reflect on today’s learning.

• Complete the Evaluation and drop it off on the table as you leave.

• Be sure to sign out for the day.

• See you tomorrow – Work in your Room Day!