Curriculum and Instruction Council November 12, 2009

Welcome and Introductions

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SED Updates

Legislative Updates

Planning 6+1 Traits of Writing Direct Vocabulary Instruction Classroom Management Co-Teaching Balanced Literacy 21 st Century Skills Differentiation of Instruction School Secretary Training

Leadership This Fall Health & Safety Issues in Schools Legal Advice: Student Discipline Data Mining: Using COGNOS, ReportNet, and Data Mentor to Answer Your Data Questions TALKS: Hall Davidson Principals Meetings

Leading the Learning

ASCD Collection

IT&D Updates

CNY ASCD

Testing 3-8 Administration & Scoring Issues Tell CI&A SOON if you want them involved with your 3-8 scoring 3-8 ELA tests arrive during break Still saying no change to 3-8 formats ELA Regents transition to 6hrs “paused” FASTscore January Regents Week

21 st Century Skills Next couple of BCIC meetings Book at next meeting C.21 skills primer OCM BOCES P21 Affiliate Status Summer event

Content Area Literacy Share resource: Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success Content Area Literacy intro Active Literacy Across the Curriculum recommended What are districts doing?

Communicating and Coordinating Professional Development Needs for Next Year December meeting be ready to share (organizer available) Service Visits coming Coffee & cookies visits, too?

Earning College Credits in High School Committee Came up at last meeting High Efficiency Planning Grant news Form a committee to study?

Scheduling Question Do any districts offer block scheduling by semester courses, rather than full year courses? (this would be for core area courses, not electives)

BCIC Meetings Iss.ocmboces.org Next Meeting More on 3-8? This Meeting Like Last Year

Wrap-Up Meeting evaluation Next meeting: December 10th