Agenda+Sept+9

REARVIEW MIRROR Celebrate and Reflect on the Professional Learning Days Products from the Professional Learning Days Individual Chats with Mr. Berblinger
 * Learning Team Agenda w/Notes** September 9, 2013 @4:05
 * What were our success?
 * What were our challenges?
 * Story Doing, StoryTelling Activity
 * Norms
 * Goals
 * Instructional Sequences
 * DMS Reflections
 * Let Mr. Berblinger know when your planning period is so he can visit with you.

WINDSHIELD VIEW Continue to brainstorm ways for PLC's to collaborate STEM (Engineering by Design) Book Study
 * If collaboration is important, how do we make it happen?

A meeting of the USD 313 Learning Team was held at the BAC from 4:05-5:30.
 * Notes from September 9, 2013**

Attending: Lynette McLean, Bev Lund, Kim Fredrickson, Jana Moler, Dave Schroeder, Mike Berblinger, Mike Ellegood, Todd Fredrickson, Randy Doerksen, Mary Frazier, Teresa Poulseen, Cindy Couchman; Secretary Sarah Berblinger

Mary shared about former students Each wrote two words to describe the days then discussed with a partner Then we videotaped the words with quick explanation – Story doing and Story telling Many people used words to express the conflicting feelings about the days -- overwhelming __and__ positive.
 * “Rearview Mirror Time”: Reflections on the PD days **

Suggestions for these days in the future: Bev: Time with team to process before moving on to another topic would have helped Cindy: Maybe a laser focus on one or two topics Kim: LA sort of worked out that way when we met with our groups and having time to process was really helpful. Close proximity to high school group was a plus. Lynette: Had time to process after each session; worked well for elementary. Mary shared some anonymous comments from the DMS Cindy: Her team had hoped to walk away with a product Mary: Would it have helped to have descriptions of the topics? Jana: High percentage of people who’d be willing to dive in some more on PBL Bev: We need to have team time built in so we can keep working on things right away. Mary: PBL resources are available

How could we creatively continue the learning before Nov. 1? Teresa: We used to meet at lunch Cindy: Lunch time doesn’t work very well by the time you get everyone together Seminar occasionally After school doesn’t work for coaches Try early release in Seminar Jana: Having common plan time would be great Mary: Having 5th grade team trying to use Edmodo as their sharing mode. Problem with Skyping because we don’t have the same planning times. Mary: Can we look at having some teams getting off early to meet from 2-4? Mike said that was a possibility.

Team leaders were reminded that team reflections and goals are due by Friday, Sept. 13 Norms, team goals, and individual goals to principals -- hard copy to principal
 * DMS goals/instructional sequences: **

How to find the Classroom profile and PLC Teaching Profile: District website, staff, staff resources, PD and then evaluation We discussed what the expectations are for the instructional sequences. Mike Berblinger would like to see the first nine weeks’ plan so far with essential outcomes and basic plan of instruction. This will be a working document; we are building it this year with the goal of having a completed draft to use by next year. This document would inform the teaching of incoming new teachers when they ask, “So what should I be teaching?”

**Mike Berblinger wants to know everyone’s planning time so he can make a plan to come see every team leader. Please e-mail him this information if you haven’t done so already.

Mike gave us information about EbD – ESSDACK is submitting a grant.

Book study ideas: Started discussing doing a study this year. Ideas: Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at work 3-5, 6-8 grade levels __ Leadership and Self-Deception __ – idea from Cindy and Lynette

Mary ended the meeting with a technology bonus for everyone. She shared the website REWORDIFY.com which can take a text and “rewordify” it to make it more accessible for students who can’t read it as written.