Trojan Triumph Time A Professional Dialogue

OBJECTIVES By the end of this meeting, we will have: 3-5 measurable goals for our students during TTT A plan for measuring student success on these goals A system for monitoring student progress on these goals A plan for what we will do in Trojan Triumph Time for the next 2 weeks.

AGENDA Review Meeting Norms: 2 minutes Establish Roles: 2 minutes Review our purpose as a PLC: 4 minutes Develop TTT Goals: 10 minutes Determine HOW we will assess goals: 5 minutes Pre-plan next 2 weeks of TTT: 15 minutes Wrap-Up and Next Steps: 2 minutes

CODE of COOPERATION During our meetings we will… Listen as an ally Speak from awareness (not opinion) Suspend certainty Celebrate diversity Mind the schedule If there is anything that you’d like to add, please share it now.

TEAM ROLES (2 min) The purpose of roles is to help our meeting function more efficiently The following roles need to be filled… TIMEKEEPER PARLIAMENTARIAN (keep us on task) NOTE-TAKER In the future, this will be done at the close of the previous meeting.

What is a Professional Learning Community? (4 min) “PLCs create the processes that create the dialogue that identifies the programs…PLC is a way of doing.” The Three Big Ideas of a PLC are: Focus on Learning Collaborative Culture Focus on Results

Purpose of a PLC Teachers in professional learning communities focus on learning by asking: What do we expect our students to learn? How will we know when they’ve learned it? How will we respond when they don’t learn? How will we respond when they already know it? “Teaching without learning isn’t teaching at all…it is just presenting.”

“If it’s broke, FIX IT!” Evaluating our Systems

Problem of Practice

TTT Goals (10 min) Each of you was asked to add your own goals for Trojan Triumph Time to the shared Google Doc. The following list was created using the contributions given by this PLT (Professional Learning Team) If there are any additions to the list, please give them now.

Assessing Success (5 min) Since our goals are measureable, how will we measure the success of our students? Our measure for success must be… Unbiased Accurate Uniform Anything else?? How will we assess our students in Trojan Triumph Time?

Planning (15 min) In deciding what activities we will complete during the next 2 weeks, there is one non-negotiable… ALL ACTIVITIES MUST BE ALIGNED WITH ONE OF THE GOALS THAT WE AGREED UPON. You will continue to receive ACT Prep lessons from me each week. (there is only one this week due to the ACT Plan Test)

Wrap-Up and Next Steps (2 min) Assign Roles for Next Meeting TIME KEEPER PARLIAMENTARIAN NOTE TAKER Action Plan for Next Meeting Collect sample rubrics that we could modify to assess our student written responses. Access your TTT students EVASS and MAP data Devise a plan for keeping track of TTT Work Begin brainstorming ways to progress monitor TTT Note-taker: meeting notes to the members of our PLT Next meeting date: Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Monitoring for Success (5 min) In order to know if we are moving in the right direction, we must progress monitor…if things don’t look right, WE MUST BE WILLING TO CHANGE! How will we progress monitor Trojan Triumph Time?