Agenda for TUESDAY, September 11th 2007 - 2008 Coach Meetings

 

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Facilitator: Greg

Recorder:

Time Keeper:

 

8:15-8:30 Calendar Updates

 

8:30 - 8:45 Office "OURS"

Ann 15 minutes

 

 

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

 

Choose a day to come and meet as a group to talk w/other coaches, talk, discuss, share, etc.

What's working, what's not, how it's going at our school.

 

Something to think about until next meeting. No decisions made today.

 

World Cafe format (Cindy)

What is the World Cafe format, an how would using it contribute to our work?(Cindy)

http://www.theworldcafe.com/twc.htm

 

Decision & Level of Commitment:

 

 

 

8:45-9:00 Lesson and Project Ideas

Joel 15 minutes (medium priority)

*Worldwide Wiki http://worldwidewiki.pbwiki.com/

*Lantern Film Festival http://www.bayswatersc.vic.edu.au/clusterprojects/lantern/

 

Reaction & Discussion

 

 

9:00-9:15 SmartBoard Discussion

Alex 15 minutes

 

• How many schools have how many Smartboards? How many are presently considering them for the future?

• Smartboard costs?

•What role do we see SmartBoards playing in our schools?

 

 

9:15-9:45 Technology Workshops

Karen and Jane 30 min.

 

 

9:45-9:50 C4T work days Jane 5 min

Make sure all dates are on your calendar

 

 

9:50-9:55 Podcast Procedures and Recommendations

5 min. Jane

 

 

9:55-10:06 ***BREAK BREAK BREAK***

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:06-10:21 Norms (Alex)

CoachNorms8_27_07.doc (revised 8-27-07)

 

What are the purposes of our meetings?

What is our vision as a group?

What specific functions, goals, expectations, etc. do we hold for our meetings?

 

 

 

10:21- 10:35 Professional Development: Book Study

Karen 14 minutes

Do we want to pursue a book study?

Format options: Each group member to lead/facilitate discussion on specific chapters?

Plan activity based on specific chapter?

Other options?

 

Decision & Timeline

 

 

 

 

10:35-11:10 Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes:

 

Every year of the coaching gig has been markedly different from the previous year. In what ways is this year different?

 

How has the shift in coach responsibilities this year (specifically C4T coordination and IT workshop follow-up) positively and negatively impacted the pace and nature of our work so far? What further changes might take place, and how can we work together to maximize the positives, and minimize or eliminate the negatives?

 

TRIADS to discuss, brainstorm, and list impacts - 15 minutes (each group: one coordinator, two or more coaches)

Each triad will have two minutes to summarize their thinking, sharing key points in list form

Documents will be collected from all groups and synthesized to a single document (recorder will take this responsibility)

 

Group reaction and reflection: What do these changes mean for our work with teachers?

 

Decision: Should this topic be rolled forward for future meetings?

 

 

11:10 - Wrap-up & Farewells

 Notes from today's meeting... enjoy!

Cindy and Joel attending a meeting for data for Dave on September 19th.

Jane asked for Blog information for her strategic meeting on October 2nd.  Please let her know if you have blog issues.

Joel shared Worldwide Wiki and Lantern Film Festival.  Please contact him first if you or your teachers wish to participate and collaborate!    Password: world2me

 

28th at 2:00 a World Café Meeting open to available coaches and coordinators

 

October 10th and October 19th, and October 24th.

 

Agreement to revisit how the World Café Meetings are going…November 5th.

 

Agreement to “look over” the information on www.theworldcafe.com  before the meeting on the 28th.

 

Agreement to “revisit” how workshops are going… from coach view and coordinator view.  4 weeks from now.

 

Smart Board…

 

Keli- is charged with asking Ginger to copy us on C4T

e mails and send us the e mail about C4T that went out yesterday.

 

Podcast procedures… recommendations… must go to coordinator, coordinator sends e mail letting them know it is available for uploading (but it won’t be uploaded).  Help them understand size…what is considered big?  Anything that is not a Podcast.  Quicktimes should be saved for the “web”.

 

Review “decisions’ from the strategic meeting on October 2nd about podcasts at a coach meeting.

 

10:06 timekeeper (GREAT JOB).  Non-verbal timekeeping for the group, but communication between facilitator/timekeeper

 

Less rigidity, more voices in the room, responsibility to discuss, separate agenda into “need to know” and “need to discuss” or FYI, listing them at the top of the wiki agenda

Level of action

 

Professional Book Study…

Happens during meetings on Mondays…Habits of Mind

 

Cindy-facilitating the discussion of the preface, chapters 1& 2, she will be responsible for determining the content (amount of chapters) for the following meeting.  1 hour allocated for book discussion.  September 24th.