1. Curriculum and Instruction Council November 12, 2009

2. Welcome and Introductions

3. Article Read

4. SED Updates

5. Legislative Updates

6. 2009-2010 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

13. 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

14. Leading the Learning

15. ASCD Collection

16. IT&D Updates

17. CNY ASCD

18. 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

19. 21 st Century Skills Next couple of BCIC meetings Book at next meeting C.21 skills primer OCM BOCES P21 Affiliate Status Summer event

21. 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?

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

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

24. 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)

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

26. Wrap-Up Meeting evaluation Next meeting: December 10th