Agenda for MONDAY, August 27th 2007 - 2008 Coach Meetings

 

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Facilitator: Cindy Recorder: Time Keeper:

 

 

Welcome to Another Fine Day in the Neighborhood!

Cindy- 2 minutes

 

Calendar and other announcements

 

1. Calendar Review

All 5 minutes

(Cindy will email the group about Internet Safety meeting on Sept. 20th)

 

2. Coaches attending an SAS meeting this year

Alex 1.5 minute

Coaches are invited to attend one of the HS SAS meetings, based on feeder area.

 

October 18th 8:15-12:00 @SARC works for all. Coaches will attend

 

 

3. Blog Report from the BIG meeting

Jane 5 minutes

Dave described Ben Startzer's technique for addressing issues. He likes to have "tactical meetings" to discuss concerns. We have 400+ blogs currently being used. This could double this year. Dave had a "strategical meeting" to hash out concerns, and brought them to the managers meeting. Next step is a tactical meeting.  More information to follow. If blogs can't be accessed at certain times of the day, PLEASE let a coordinator know.

Podcasts: teachers send podcast to a coordinator (CD or email), then coaches help teachers add them to their blog.

 

 

4. Clarify C4T meetings

Alex 5 minutes

        • Agenda for C4T meetings

        • How to upload

How coaches conduct C4T meetings with our peeps this year.

The following items should be discussed:

1. Essential question clarification

   1. Reinforce that the essential question should connect to the assessment ("Are you assessing the essential question?")

2. Uploading their lesson to database

3. Clarify what fall meeting will look like (bring hard copies, sharing at tables)

4. CIS Classes

5. "What little things are you doing every day?"

6. Be specific that our meetings are C4T meetings, and is a requirement of the program

7. Align lessons to standards, discuss at-risk kids, and have "courageous conversations" with teachers

8. First assignment is a 1-2 day lesson

Dates: October 15th and 25th*

ACTION - Karen will post the essential question checklist document

 

Cumulative Approximation of Minutes= 16.5

 

 

Ramblin' down the positive path...

 

Revisiting Norms

Cindy 30 minutes

CoachNorms.doc; Last updated 8/7/06

Alex added facilitator norms to our Word document

 

ACTION: Cindy and Joel agree to become members of the strategic meeting with administrators

 

FUTURE TOPIC: What is the purpose of our meetings? What is our vision as a group? Functions, goals, expectations, etc.

 

Revisiting Coach Role/Tech Integration

Jane 10 minutes

Revisiting the Coaches Role @ Tech Integration Workshops

 

Technology Integration Workshops (Is this a repeat of the above agenda item???)

 

Karen Jane 10 minutes

Coaches agree to make personal contact prior to day 1 of a workshop

Schools are paying for Day 1. Set up sub info. with office manager

See Prior to Day 1 of Workshops for details

 

Primary Writing and Intermediate workshops are on a wiki:

http://primarywritingworkshop.pbwiki.com

 

Coaches Menu

Keli - 30 minutes

A VERY rough continuation of the work we discussed in the spring....

CoachMenu.comicdoc

 

We transferred to Word document, and Keli facilitated a group editing session on the document

REVISED Coach Menu from Paul Coach menu.doc

 

ACTION: August 31st, SARC, 9:00-10:30,  Coaches will meet to work further on the menu document

September 5th, SARC, 8:00-9:30, Coaches will meet again to finalize the document

 

Cumulative Approximation of Minutes= 96.5

 

14.5 Minute BREAK (around 9:40)

 

 

Second half of meeting total minutes= 60

 

Mileage on Excel

Paul - 10 minutes + 5 for questions

Share with team test run (beta) of mileage spreadsheet that includes every location in the district and performs automatic calculation and prepares reimbursement submission form.

 

 

Office "OURS"

Ann 15 minutes (2 minutes)

 

A place and time to informally cultivate collaboration and discussion (aka chat and skat)

 

 

SmartBoard Discussion (wait until next meeting)

 

Alex 5 minutes

    • How many schools have how many Smartboards?

    • Smartboard costs?

 

Professional Development: Book Study (wait until next meeting)

 

Karen 10 minutes

 

 

Elementary Building Contact Meeting

Building Tech Contact Meeting

Alex, Karen and Jane  5 minutes

Input from Coaches on the agenda

ACTION: Jane will email the group with this information

 

 

Tracking appointment data: What is needed? (addressed - more information to follow. It's a "Dave" thing)

 

Keli and Ann 10 minutes

Cindy and Joel agreed to attend a district planning meeting on this topic

 

That's it folks!

TTFN...