August+2009+Minutes

  · Includes creating agendas o some “on high” or top down business must be conducted § Bart will provide topics or request work o should address or focus upon or include Bart’s four key questions o should arise from PLC meetings questions as well, in my opinion · Includes documentation such as keeping and posting minutes to some kind of electronic format that, as of this meeting, Gavin has been asked to create. o We seemed to agree that it’s important for all of us, and the department as a whole, to see what we are individually and as a grade-level pursuing. o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We are expected to post a one-to-two page “end of year” report on our grade level’s effort at our goals, how we worked on them, what we feel needs to continue to be addressed. . . <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Asked to use Bart’s four key guiding questions as a guide for our specific grade level agendas <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paula’s Notes – English Grade Level Coordinators **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">August 25, 2009, Meeting **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Role of Clerk or Facilitator **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Year Ahead **
 * 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> ****How do we foster a 21st century literacy and love of language in a student body that is reading less and less?**


 * 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> ****How do we best encourage our students to see literature as more than mere academic discipline? How do we facilitate their discovery of literature as a craft, a moral endeavor, and as a form of social conscience?**


 * 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> ****How do we best promote an understanding of writing as a process through which we discover what we think, feel, and understand?**


 * 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> ****How do we unify a curriculum that encourages our students to be more creative, collaborative, critical in their thinking, cross-cultural, and literate across an increasingly complex set of media?**

·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Expected to have regular monthly meetings that aren’t just pass-bys; o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Devise ways to come up with serious time together <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seemed to agree that if we can get the electronic posting going, maybe we need to meet only once a semester or so in person ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Affirmed that more communication, in all forms, is a good thing in our department ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Comments made about how communication has been truly helpful in the past
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Grade Coordinators Communication **