Forum Meeting, October 10, 2012

Forum Meeting October 24, 2012 Attendance: K-1-Jessie Smiley 2-3-Sami Jones 4-5-Amber Britt ELEM/MID Sped-Tracy Swope ELEM/MID Title- Grading Practices-Amy Bessen ELEM/MID MBI-Jennifer Wood Wellness- Tech Team-Scarlett Shermn Fine Arts –Sarah Taylor Evaluations - HS MBI –Josh Feller HS Tech –Stormy Taylor HS RTI Industrial Arts Welcome Discuss time: 3:20-4:30 (to be adjusted in my opinion) Review: (Given Handouts) • Role of Forum. HPT group breakdown, Role of Instructional Forum • Professional Development Overview for 2012-2013 per last years FORUM & et al. • Professional Development Framework with regards to PIR per last years FORUM & et al. Good News 3rd Grade held the first Elem recognition assembly. They did a really great job! 3rd grade has also started the Daily 5 a reading program and is having success. 5th Grade students are paired with 2nd grade student reading buddy program. Going really well. 6th Grade hosted the annual Carnival again. Reports on HPT meetings K-1 working on math common core, looking at changing report card to align. 2-3 2nd grade working on report cards to align. 3rd grade working on math common core. 4-5 working on school community. Pairing 4th & 5th graders with “buddies” working towards school to community project. ELEM/MID Sped working on developing program where getting students out into the community ie. Recipe building, grocery shopping, meal preparation. ELEM/MID Title Grading Practices goal setting and developing a rubric to try to get grading changed over. Going in direction standards based grading. ELEM/MID MBI MBI hasn’t met yet. Middle school hosted Dr. Corso from My Voice Survey. Looking at school climate. Elem did the peach prize again. Ready to do self-assessment survey with the staff and my voice again. Tech Team Tanya, Gloria and I are surveying staff to see what type of technology they would like to implement into their classroom. Also, how can get more teachers using their Interwrite board. We have also been making sure the Interwrite boards are working consistently. Gloria and I would really like to see more people using the digital library. We all would like more new tech training. Fine Arts discussing music arts culture. How to incorp more into the school. Evaluations working on developing a new eval tool for staff. Appleyby is included in this to provide staff input/representation because he is the Union Presi. HS MBI conference on Oct. 29 & 30, finishing up posters, pair freshman with upperclassman. Would like to do video announcements. Starting Birthday announcements 6th peiod HS Tech Summarized last years goals and rolled over into this year. Goals include: poll staff of tech issues/ideas or things want to learn; setup printing to Copier(staff room) and Library Copy Machine; make sonic wall access longer than 30 min?; what’s up with the Internet/are we getting something faster?; please clarify what is expected with regard to MBC and/or rschooltoday; what are some “real-world” tech things that students will need in the workforce; do we know what colleges and/or the workforce recommend? HS RTI Industrial Arts ???Here are some questions for next time: Does OPI offer any differentiation training/support? When is the next CRISS date? Does that include everyone or just those taking it for credit? Can there be sub-release time to vertically align with the Common Core? Ie. Math Can we move FORUM meeting to the last half of HPT time? How can we get more membership from all the teams? Meeting Dates: Oct. 24 Nov. 28 Dec. 19 Jan. 30 Feb. 27 March 27 April 24 May 29