1. English Department Chairs Meeting December 16, 2014
Facilitator: Sara Overby, Sr. Admin. ELA

3. Deck the Halls Choral Reading Builds fluency and prosody
Embeds vocabulary
Leads to content meaning
Offers a close reading
Combines re-reading
Builds trust and community
Builds collegiality
Can be a springboard to closer study

4. Exams
Specifications on DPI Website
Links under Hot Topics
Types of items, rigor, standards, weights
Released items/tests
Eng. I, IV NCFE – 50 multiple choice
English III NCFE – 48 multiple choice
2 Constructed Response
Bullets permissible
Stay on the lines provided!!!
UPDATES
IMPORTANT
2015
ASW
Analysis of Student Work
Teachers with 60% AP
over the course of the year
No changes from DPI since Sept.
Links under Hot Topics
CDM Enloe, Green Hope, Millbrook Organized by API School CDM Team Phase 1: February-March, 2015 NCFEs and EOC 94% raw score

5. Benchmarks

6. Instructional Leadership
A Call to Rigor

7. Survey Says…

8. Survey Love and joy come to you,
And to you our wassail, too. And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year! And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year!