December 2009 District PLC/Curriculum Committee

November Early Out Meetings General observations The time spent was well worth it to begin to focus vertically and see what other levels had completed Level teams need time to regroup and move forward with pieces that they want to tweak or change based on work with other grade levels Most teams have essential learnings identified (some need some tweaking using the guidelines from the September District PLC/Curriculum Meeting—see powerpoint on wiki)

November Early Out Meetings, cont. General Observations Most teams have essential learnings matched to standards Most teams have identified the “prior skills/knowledge” needed for students to be successful The level of specificity is still quite varied in the Content/Skills section (where the team should put all of the “stuff” that they will teach to get to the big, enduring essential learning Teams have a variety of assessments developed, but continued work on common assessments is a high priority Facilitation of the teams is still a work in progress—this will be a focus of future conversations for the district team.

Your thoughts? Please respond to the discussion thread of the wiki with questions/comments/concerns related to the work that was done vertically during the November Early Out!

Next Steps Student Programs will begin to compile all of the drafts into a more unified curriculum guide with a “map” of the essential learnings from the vertical view—this will included changes requested after November Early Out Teams MUST get Summer copies of any changes/revisions/new documents that you want to have reflected in the guide—Please send these documents to Summer before you leave for Winter Break Remember—this is a work in progress!!! Bring essential learning development to a close during the spring semester and move forward focusing on your SMART goals

Next Steps, continued… January 20 th Early Out Contact Summer to let her know what you need (copies of your curriculum guides/standards/etc.) Begin to develop a new list of data needed by your team to track your SMART goal—this might be data that is stored at Student Programs, in Infinite Campus, in each teacher’s classrooms. Send Summer the list of data needed, if any (and source of the data) after January 20 th Early Out Continue developing your common assessments for second semester

Next Steps, continued… January 20 th Early Out Begin developing strategies/ideas as a team for building a systemic pyramid of interventions—keep this list, begin to research strategies, develop a professional development needs list for your team Remaining PLC Early Outs for February 24 th March 18 th April 21st

Next Steps, cont………. Tentative District PLC/Curriculum meeting times March 24 th April 13th

Feedback??????? Let me know if this type of meeting to update you/provide training/etc. is a method you would like to continue (may be done using other formats, such as VoiceThread, etc.) View Documents and Discussion Threads at: Curriculum+Committee