1. Verneice DanielsELA / Reading Kitari LewisMath Abraham RiserMath L. Washington – ThomasELA / Reading Jetta WilliamsSocial Studies

2. Professional learning communities create an intensive focus on learning by clarifying exactly what students are to learn by monitoring each student’s learning on a timely basis.

5.  Clarify what students must learn  Assess standards  Common assessments

6.  Access essential learning  Teach in the time allotted

7.  Promote clarity  Promote consistent priorities  Establish a curriculum that is viable

8.  Summative Assessments  Formative Assessments  Common Assessments

9.  Draft new vision statement, endorse collective commitments, and establish school improvement goals.  Expectations: Common purpose, clear priorities and systematic procedures.

10. 1.How should we pace the curriculum to ensure that all students have the opportunity to master the essential learning? 2. What evidence do we have that we: a. use the results of common assessments to identify students who require additional time and support for learning? b. are using the results from common assessments to identify strengths and weaknesses in our individual teaching? c. are using the results of common assessments as part of a continuous improvement process that is helping our team get better results?  Does student performance on our team assessments correlate with their achievement on other assessments at the district, state, provincial, or national level? a. Does student performance on our assessments correlate with the grades they are earning in my course or grade level? b. Do our assessment practices encourage or discourage learning on the part of our students?