Wednesday, September 2, 2015

September 2nd PLC Meeting Minutes

Members present: Joy Janes, Mollie Medley, Lisa Rucker, Sarah Swarts, Jackie Stevens, Kelsey Mattingly, Lee Johnson, Jeremy Hill, and Jessica Scheerhorn

Discussion:

  • MAP data discussed and new groups discussed for interventions to be started on Tuesday 9/8/15
  • Intervention group procedures
  • Formative Assessments
    • Mollie - plickers- two students struggling and making a small group
    • Kelsey - exit slip - CR explanations, place value line up, showing work
    • Jackie - I got it ticket - modeling for lower students, pushing higher students to complete other activities
    • Joy - number of the day
    • Sarah - exit slip - five addition problems and one constructed response
  • Leader in Me book study
    • read pages 1-11
    • Be prepared to answer questions 
    • Moving to a whole group setting
  • Questioned about planning documents
  • Reading lesson plans
    • Character traits
    • Remediation and enrichment opportunities
    • Character Day discussion - Mollie looking for permission slips and information
  • Math lesson plans
    • Subtraction - 
    • Anchor chart and videos for visual learners
    • Activities - tic-tac-subtract , piece of pie, spin around with paperclip,  -  all differentiated for individual needs
    • Explanation of Base 10 strategy by Jackie
    • Whole, part, part strategy - modeled by Mollie
  • Social Studies
    • Lapbook
    • Abraham Lincoln field trip and items to do prior and afterwards
  • Writing Lesson plans
    • Struggle with lucy calkins
    • Parts of speech - adjectives, adverbs, verbs, nouns, pronouns

September 3 PLC

PLC Agenda

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

August 27th PLC Meeting Minutes

Members Present: Jackie Stevens, Sarah Swarts, Kelsey Mattingly, Mollie Medley, Joy Janes, Lisa Rucker, Jessica Scheerhorn, Jeremy Hill and Aletha Abell

Discuss agenda

Quarterly plan for student achievement

Lisa, Sara, Jackie, and Mollie were inputting math data into quadrants

Reading
Discussion of quarterly plan for novice students

  • work with intervention teacher to promote reading/decoding strategies
  • Small group instruction
  • Center Work
  • Reading workshop
  • Leveled reading
  • Analyze descartes
  • Increase exposure to constructed responses and re-writing to proficiency
  • computer programs


Discussion of quarterly plan for apprentice students

  • work with intervention teacher to promote reading/decoding strategies
  • Small group instruction
  • Center Work
  • Reading workshop
  • Leveled reading
  • Junior Great Books
  • Analyze descartes
  • Increase exposure to constructed responses and re-writing to proficiency
  • computer programs

Discussion of quarterly plan for proficient students

  • work with intervention teacher to promote reading/decoding strategies
  • Small group instruction
  • Center Work
  • Reading workshop
  • Leveled reading
  • Junior Great books
  • Analyze descartes
  • ncrease exposure to constructed responses and re-writing to distinguished
  • computer programs
Discussion of quarterly plan for distinguished students




  • work with intervention teacher to promote reading/decoding strategies
  • Small group instruction
  • Center Work
  • Reading workshop
  • Leveled reading
  • Junior Great Books
  • Analyze descartes
  • ncrease exposure to constructed responses and re-writing to distinguished and beyond
  • computer programs
Math
Discussion of quarterly plan for novice students:
  • provide intervention
  • small group instruction
  • center work
  • analyze descartes
  • increase exposure to SACR and rewriting to proficiency
  • additional common assessments
  • hands on activities
  • computer programs
Discussion of quarterly plan for apprentice students:
  • provide intervention
  • small group instruction
  • center work
  • analyze descartes
  • increase exposure to SACR and rewriting to proficiency
  • additional common assessments
  • computer programs
Discussion of quarterly plan for proficiency students:
  • provide intervention
  • small group instruction
  • center work
  • analyze descartes
  • increase exposure to SACR and rewriting to distinguished
  • additional common assessments
  • computer programs
Discussion of quarterly plan for distinguished students:
  • provide intervention
  • small group instruction
  • center work
  • analyze descartes
  • increase exposure to SACR and rewriting to distinguished and beyond
  • additional common assessment
  • computer programs

August 27 PLC

PLC Agenda

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

August 19th Meeting Minutes

Present: Kelsey Mattingly, Mollie Medley, Joy Janes, Jackie Stevens, Sarah Swarts, Lisa Rucker, and Jessica Scheerhorn

Trends in KPREP Data (four years):

  • Teachers are consistant but students have changed
  • Both subjects demonstrated a increase novice/ apprentice and a decrease in proficient/distinguished this year.
  • Hard to provide reading materials based on Common Core when resources do not align to Common Core.
  • Math program was only implemented at the end of last year and is very difficult to implement when it doesn't correlate with math pacing guide. 
  • Writing program is great but is very time consuming. 
Ways to accomplish a reduction in novices/apprentices:
  • Meeting with intervention teachers to learn new programs
  • Provided with two intervention periods
  • Testing kids in second grade with time limits and constructed responses
  • Time tests/ and constructed responses - Labor Day 
  • Intrinsic motivation strategies
Discussion of Data Analysis
  • Data Analysis Graph
  • Quarterly Plan for all students
    • Novice - considered tier III kids
    • Apprentice - hardest to move, lack motivation, poor attendance, truancy, most important area to build relationships, think outside the box, they can TIP the scale
    • Proficient - 65 percentile or higher on MAP , need to sustain,
    • Distinguished - Sustain
Discussion of Dirty Data
  • Looked at reading scores and put them into categories based on scores

August 19 PLC Agenda
August 19 PLC PP

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

August 12th PLC Minutes

August 12, 2015

Members Present:  Mollie Medley, Joy Janes, Lisa Rucker, Kelsey Mattingly, Jackie Stevens, Sarah Swarts, Jeremy Hill and Jessica Scheerhorn


Notes:


Celebrations were discussed!


Norms were reviewed and approved!


Creating a PLC Vision:


Discussion:


Similarities of missions:

Growth mindset, self worth, success, learning environment, growth and love for learning

In our PLC:

Developing lesson plans together, discussion, incorporating differentiation and remediation, cross curricular connections

What are our goals:

Developing lesson plans collaboratively, discussing how activities look in the classroom,  designing/modifying/evaluating assessments, evaluating program review and uploading artifacts and analyzing behavior data.

Team Mission:


Mollie:  Our team mission is increase student achievement by collaboratively planning instruction and assessments that are Common Core aligned.  We will strive to embed enrichment and remediation in our lessons while also incorporating best practices so that we can help each student reach his/her full potential.  We will also evaluate our Program Review to ensure that artifacts/evidence support the dedication we have to our students.


Joy:


Jackie: Classroom teachers, co-teachers, the instructional coach, and administration will collaborate each week to determine the appropriate strategies and techniques which best meet student needs.  Collaboration will support the creation and modification of formative assessments, enrichment, and remediation opportunities.  Time will be allotted for the evaluation and documentation of evidence regarding Program Review.


Lisa:
  Collaboratively plan and discuss instructional strategies to promote student growth and self worth.


Kelsey: Our team mission is to increase achievement in academics, socially and emotionally by planning collaboratively with general education teachers, co-teachers, administration and the instructional coach. We will use that time to create and modify formative assessments aligned to Common Core Curriculum. We will consistently provide enrichment and remediation opportunities for students while providing various instructional techniques. We will also provide evaluation time for Program Review to upload evidence and documentation to demonstrate our constant commitment to student achievement.


Sarah:

Our 3rd grade team mission is to provide children with a learning environment that actively engages them in academic and social growth to become of worth to themselves and others. In order to successfully achieve this mission, our PLC vision is to collaborate professionally each week to determine the best teaching strategies and techniques to be used in our classrooms. To benefit our students we will utilize each other, our administration, instructional coach and co-teachers support during these PLC meetings to create and modify lesson plans. During this time we will also evaluate Program Review and upload evidence gathered.

Our vision:

Our third grade team mission for our PLC meetings is to increase students' social, emotional and cognitive well-being.  We will do this by collaborating as classroom teachers, co-teachers, the instructional coach, and administration through lesson planning.  Each week we will determine the appropriate strategies and techniques to best meet student needs.  Collaboration will support the creation and modification of formative assessments, enrichment, and remediation opportunities.  We will also analyze our Program Review and upload evidence and documentation to demonstrate our constant commitment to student achievement.





August 13 PLC Agenda

August 13 PLC Powerpoint